DbContext.SaveChangesAsync Method (CancellationToken)

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Asynchronously saves all changes made in this context to the underlying database.

Namespace:  System.Data.Entity
Assembly:  EntityFramework (in EntityFramework.dll)

'Declaration
<SuppressMessageAttribute("Microsoft.Usage", "CA1801:ReviewUnusedParameters", MessageId := "cancellationToken")> _
Public Overridable Function SaveChangesAsync ( _
    cancellationToken As CancellationToken _
) As Task(Of Integer)
'Usage
Dim instance As DbContext 
Dim cancellationToken As CancellationToken 
Dim returnValue As Task(Of Integer)

returnValue = instance.SaveChangesAsync(cancellationToken)

[SuppressMessageAttribute("Microsoft.Usage", "CA1801:ReviewUnusedParameters", MessageId = "cancellationToken")]
public virtual Task<int> SaveChangesAsync(
    CancellationToken cancellationToken
)

[SuppressMessageAttribute(L"Microsoft.Usage", L"CA1801:ReviewUnusedParameters", MessageId = L"cancellationToken")]
public:
virtual Task<int>^ SaveChangesAsync(
    CancellationToken cancellationToken
)

[<SuppressMessageAttribute("Microsoft.Usage", "CA1801:ReviewUnusedParameters", MessageId = "cancellationToken")>]
abstract SaveChangesAsync : 
        cancellationToken:CancellationToken -> Task<int> 
[<SuppressMessageAttribute("Microsoft.Usage", "CA1801:ReviewUnusedParameters", MessageId = "cancellationToken")>]
override SaveChangesAsync : 
        cancellationToken:CancellationToken -> Task<int> 

public function SaveChangesAsync(
    cancellationToken : CancellationToken
) : Task<int>

• cancellationToken
  Type: System.Threading.CancellationToken
  A CancellationToken to observe while waiting for the task to complete.

Type: System.Threading.Tasks.Task<Int32>
A task that represents the asynchronous save operation. The task result contains the number of objects written to the underlying database.

Multiple active operations on the same context instance are not supported. Use 'await' to ensure that any asynchronous operations have completed before calling another method on this context.

DbContext Class

SaveChangesAsync Overload

System.Data.Entity Namespace