http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2010/05/04/10007557.aspx(The full set of ParallelExtensionsExtras Tour posts is available here .) The Task Parallel Library isn&rsquo;t just about CPU-bound operations. The Task class is a great representation for any asynchronous operation, even those implementeden-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2010/05/04/10007557.aspx#10386703Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:57:02 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10386703Stephen Toub - MSFT<p>@huvar: It&#39;s an extension method (<a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383977(v=vs.110).aspx">msdn.microsoft.com/.../bb383977(v=vs.110).aspx</a>)</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10386703" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2010/05/04/10007557.aspx#10386505Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:20:40 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10386505huvar<p>Hey</p> <p>I may be missing something basic but howcome does this method:</p> <p>namespace System.Net</p> <p>{</p> <p> &nbsp; &nbsp;public static class WebClientExtensions</p> <p> &nbsp; &nbsp;{</p> <p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;public static Task&lt;byte[]&gt; DownloadDataTask(this WebClient webClient, string address);</p> <p> }</p> <p>}</p> <p>is called like this:</p> <p>return new WebClient().DownloadDataTask(url) </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10386505" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2010/05/04/10007557.aspx#10299519Tue, 01 May 2012 14:50:20 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10299519Stephen Toub - MSFT<p>Niclas, if you need that level of control, you can use HttpWebRequest/Response or the new HttpClient type in .NET 4.5. &nbsp;Both of those provide asynchronous capabilities and support providing content-type information.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10299519" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2010/05/04/10007557.aspx#10299257Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:26:13 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10299257Niclas<p>Hi there, </p> <p>I working on &nbsp;a program that spiders the web for images ant it seem that your code above could speed up things a bit.</p> <p>On question, in the continuation task i need to know what type of Content-Type was returned for a particular task, is it possible?</p> <p>Could you guide me in the right direction how this would be done?</p> <p>Cheers Niclas</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10299257" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2010/05/04/10007557.aspx#10132385Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:46:50 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10132385Stephen Toub - MSFT<p>Hi Luka-</p> <p>Such extensions are available as part of our .NET 4 samples at <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ParExtSamples">code.msdn.microsoft.com/ParExtSamples</a>, as well as built into the Async CTP available for download from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://msdn.com/vstudio/async">http://msdn.com/vstudio/async</a>.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10132385" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2010/05/04/10007557.aspx#10131742Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:36:51 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10131742Luka<p>Where&#39;s the download for the WebClient Async Tasks ?</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10131742" width="1" height="1">