Running tasks asynchronously

To understand how multiple tasks can be run simultaneously (at the same time), we will create a console app that needs to execute three methods.

There will be three methods that need to be executed: the first takes 3 seconds, the second takes 2 seconds, and the third takes 1 second. To simulate that work, we can use the Thread class to tell the current thread to go to sleep for a specified number of milliseconds.

Running multiple actions synchronously

Before we make the tasks run simultaneously, we will run them synchronously, that is, one after the other:

1. Use your preferred code editor to add a new console app to the Chapter04 solution/workspace named WorkingWithTasks.
   • In Visual Studio Code, select WorkingWithTasks as the active OmniSharp project.
2. In the WorkingWithTasks project, globally and statically import the System.Console class.
3. In the WorkingWithTasks project, add a new class file named...