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sonu
sonu

Reputation: 164

using async await to listen for messages

I want to implement silverlight's localmessaging using async await.

Lets say I created a method, ListenTask(), that returns a message wrapped in a Task using LocalMessageReceiver's Listen method and Message Received event. How can I use async await and process messages as I receive them?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 254

Answers (2)

Andrew Hanlon
Andrew Hanlon

Reputation: 7421

James Manning's answer is a good one; however if you did want to use async/await you can certainly use the Dataflow library to accomplish 'streamed' asynchronous message passing quite robustly.

Upvotes: 0

James Manning
James Manning

Reputation: 13589

Since you're expecting many messages, not just one, this is likely a better fit for Reactive Extensions - Observable.FromEvent and then subscribe. Task is a good fit for a single future value, IObservable is a good fit for a 'stream' of future values.

With Rx 2.0, you can use await with observables if you wish.

Upvotes: 3

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