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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2011
Stephen Harris Toub, Seattle, WA (US);
Mads Torgersen, Issaquah, WA (US);
Lucian Jules Wishchik, Seattle, WA (US);
Anders Hejlsberg, Seattle, WA (US);
Dmitry Lomov, Redmond, WA (US);
Matthew J. Warren, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert Eric Lippert, Seattle, WA (US);
Stephen Harris Toub, Seattle, WA (US);
Mads Torgersen, Issaquah, WA (US);
Lucian Jules Wishchik, Seattle, WA (US);
Anders Hejlsberg, Seattle, WA (US);
Dmitry Lomov, Redmond, WA (US);
Matthew J. Warren, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert Eric Lippert, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for representing various programming elements with compiler-generated tasks. Embodiments of the invention enable access to the future state of a method through a handle to a single and composable task object. For example, an asynchronous method is rewritten to generate and return a handle to an instance of a builder object, which represents one or more future states of the asynchronous method. Information about operation of the asynchronous method is then passed through the handle. Accordingly, state of the asynchronous method is trackable prior to and after completing.