Different between task and thread in .Net core

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Brahma Prakash Shukla · Answer

Thread The bare metal thing, you probably don't need to use it, you probably can use a LongRunning task and take the benefits from the TPL - Task Parallel Library, included in .NET Framework 4 (february, 2002) and above (also .NET Core). Tasks Abstraction above the Threads. It uses the thread pool (unless you specify the task as a LongRunning operation, if so, a new thread is created under the hood for you).

Rajanikant Hawaldar · Answer

Here are some differences between a task and a thread. 1) The Thread class is used for creating and manipulating a thread in Windows. A Task represents some asynchronous operation and is part of the Task Parallel Library, a set of APIs for running tasks asynchronously and in parallel. 2) The task can return a result. There is no direct mechanism to return the result from a thread. 3) Task supports cancellation through the use of cancellation tokens. But Thread doesn't. 4) A task can have multiple processes happening at the same time. Threads can only have one task running at a time. 5) We can easily implement Asynchronous using ’async’ and ‘await’ keywords. 6) A new Thread()is not dealing with Thread pool thread, whereas Task does use thread pool thread. 7) A Task is a higher level concept than Thread.