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Await a UI task sent from a background thread

Enables code running on a background thread to await a task that must run on the UI thread.

Normally, you can update your UI from a background thread by calling Dispatcher.RunAsync(CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, () => /* update the UI */). However, this merely schedules the work on the UI thread and returns immediately, even if the task is to await user input in a popup box. It also does not provide a way for the task to return a result to the caller.

RunTaskAsync provides an alternative that uses TaskCompletionSource in combination with RunAsync to return a Task that you can await from your background thread, thereby pausing execution until the UI task completes.

Because RunTaskAsync is an extension method, you call it as if it were a method on Dispatcher: var result = await Dispatcher.RunTaskAsync(async () => { ...; return value; });

using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Windows.UI.Core;

public static class DispatcherTaskExtensions
{
    public static async Task<T> RunTaskAsync<T>(this CoreDispatcher dispatcher, 
        Func<Task<T>> func, CoreDispatcherPriority priority = CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal)
    {
        var taskCompletionSource = new TaskCompletionSource<T>();
        await dispatcher.RunAsync(priority, async () =>
        {
            try
            {
                taskCompletionSource.SetResult(await func());
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                taskCompletionSource.SetException(ex);
            }
        });
        return await taskCompletionSource.Task;
    }

    // There is no TaskCompletionSource<void> so we use a bool that we throw away.
    public static async Task RunTaskAsync(this CoreDispatcher dispatcher,
        Func<Task> func, CoreDispatcherPriority priority = CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal) => 
        await RunTaskAsync(dispatcher, async () => { await func(); return false; }, priority);
}

Usage

public static async Task MyMethod()
{
    System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("MyMethod() is running");
    var buttonLabel = await CoreWindow.GetForCurrentThread().Dispatcher.RunTaskAsync(async () =>
    {
        var popup = new Windows.UI.Popups.MessageDialog("Alert",
            "MyMethod() is paused. Choose a button to continue running MyMethod()");
        popup.Commands.Add(new Windows.UI.Popups.UICommand("Button 1"));
        popup.Commands.Add(new Windows.UI.Popups.UICommand("Button 2"));
        popup.CancelCommandIndex = 0;
        var command = await popup.ShowAsync();
        
        // The value returned by the lambda expression will be the RunTaskAsync return value.
        return command.Label;
    });
    System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine($"MyMethod() is running again. User clicked {buttonLabel}");
}

One situation where RunTaskAsync is handy is when you want to render a software bitmap to the screen from a non-ui thread, which requires using the dispatcher to run async code on the UI thread.

using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Windows.Graphics.Imaging;
using Windows.UI.Core;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.Imaging;

public static async Task RenderToImageElement(
    Image imageElement, SoftwareBitmap softwareBitmap)
{
    // Changes to imageElement must happen on the UI thread.
    await imageElement.Dispatcher.RunTaskAsync(async () =>
    {
        if (softwareBitmap != null)
        {
            var imageSource = new SoftwareBitmapSource();
            await imageSource.SetBitmapAsync(softwareBitmap);
            imageElement.Source = imageSource;
        }
        else
        {
            // Clear the image element.
            imageElement.Source = null;
        }
    });
}

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Await a UI task sent from a background thread

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