microsoft/vs-threading

The Microsoft.VisualStudio.Threading is a xplat library that provides many threading and synchronization primitives used in Visual Studio and other applications.

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vs-threading

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Threading

Async synchronization primitives, async collections, TPL and dataflow extensions. The JoinableTaskFactory allows synchronously blocking the UI thread for async work. This package is applicable to any .NET application (not just Visual Studio).

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Microsoft.VisualStudio.Threading.Analyzers

Static code analyzer to detect common mistakes or potential issues regarding threading and async coding.

Diagnostic analyzer rules.

analyzer

async

dotnet

netstandard

nuget

synchronization-primitives

threading

ui-thread

Project health

Overall

6.6/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

10/10

OpenSSF Scorecard

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Youssef Fahmy

429 followers · starred Nov 2020

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185 followers · starred Dec 2018

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187 followers · starred Apr 2024

Yuyi Wang

405 followers · starred Jan 2021

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The Microsoft.VisualStudio.Threading is a xplat library that provides many threading and synchronization primitives used in Visual Studio and other applications.

1,040

6,037 commits

updated Oct 9, 2026

microsoft.github.io/vs-threading

See the code