WaitAll vs WhenAll

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Task.WaitAll blocks the current thread until everything has completed.

Task.WhenAll returns a task which represents the action of waiting until everything has completed.

That means that from an async method, you can use:

await Task.WhenAll(tasks);

… which means your method will continue when everything’s completed, but you won’t tie up a thread to just hang around until that time.

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