Installation

Register the BackgroundQueue:

Starting

For synchronous start:

Stopping

To stop the service:

For synchronous stop:

Configuration

Configure the queue length and task tracking settings in your application:

• QueueLength: Defines the maximum number of tasks in the queue.
• LockCounts: Enables thread-safe counting of running tasks.
• Log: Outputs task tracking information to ILogger

Initializing the Queue

To use BackgroundQueue, you probably want to inject it via your constructor:

Queueing Tasks

Queuing a ValueTask

Rather than wrapping the task, you can elide it directly to avoid an extra state machine:

Queuing a Task

Similarly, for Task:

Waiting for Queue to Empty

To ensure all queued tasks finish before proceeding:

Task Tracking

The queue tracks:

• The number of active ValueTask and Task instances.
• Whether any tasks are still processing.

To check if tasks are running:

To get current task counts: