Use TaskCompletionSource<T>
to create a task for some asynchronous condition that does not already have an asynchronous API. Use CancellationToken.Register
to hook the modern CancellationToken-based cancellation system into another cancellation system. Your solution just needs to combine these two.
I have a CancellationToken.AsTask()
extension method in my AsyncEx library, but you can write your own as such:
<System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Extension> _
Public Shared Function AsTask(cancellationToken As CancellationToken) As Task
Dim tcs = New TaskCompletionSource(Of Object)()
cancellationToken.Register(Function() tcs.TrySetCanceled(), useSynchronizationContext := False)
Return tcs.Task
End Function
Usage is as you expected:
Await Task.WhenAny(Task.WhenAll(taskCollection), cancellationToken.AsTask())