What is the accepted pattern for naming methods that return Tasks?

Question

APM uses BeginXXX/EndXX pairs and the Event-based Asynchronous Pattern (EAP) uses XXXAsync and XXXCompleted pairs, but I haven't seen anything standard on how to name methods that return a task.

I have been using XXXTask:

Data GetData() 
Task<Data> GetDataTask()

but was wondering if a more standard approach has developed

Answer 1

For C# 5.0 (with .NET 4.5), the naming convention is XXXAsync for task returning methods.

If there already exists a method with this naming (for instance, on the WebClient already has a DownloadDataAsync method that implements the EAP pattern), then the Task returning async method should be named XXXTaskAsync.

Answer 2

I'd recommend using the patterns in the ParallelExtensionsExtras library since that's done by the same team that made the TPL in the first place :)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2010/05/04/10007557.aspx

Their pattern seems to be the same as yours: [SyncAction]Task for the method that does SyncAction async via a Task (which is returned) - DownloadDataTask, SendTask, etc.