Look into Microsoft's Task Parallel Library, it's fantastic! It gives you something similar to channels. I wish more people knew about it. As someone else ment

Look into Microsoft's Task Parallel Library, it's fantastic! It gives you something similar to channels. I wish more people knew about it. As someone else mentioned, Reactive Extensions are also great - I believe they will be getting backpressure support which will allow similar semantics to channels (but with first-class error handling)