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Microsoft.VisualStudio.Threading

Distributed Systems & Concurrency
github.com/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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GitHub stars
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NuGet downloads
70,921,512
latest 18.12.1
Language
C#
Last push
yesterday
22 Oct 2026
Created
5 Oct 2016

vs-threading

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Microsoft.VisualStudio.Threading

NuGet package

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).

Getting started.

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Microsoft.VisualStudio.Threading.Analyzers

NuGet package

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

Diagnostic analyzer rules.