Managed Threading Basics

Discusses the advantages and drawbacks of multiple threads, and outlines the scenarios in which you might create threads or use thread pool threads.

Describes the behavior of unhandled exceptions in threads for different versions of the .NET Framework, in particular the situations in which they result in termination of the application.

Describes strategies for synchronizing data in classes that will be used with multiple threads.

Describes the basic thread states, and explains how to detect whether a thread is running.

Explains the differences between foreground and background threads.

Discusses the relationship between managed and unmanaged threading, lists managed equivalents for Windows threading APIs, and discusses the interaction of COM apartments and managed threads.

Describes thread suspension and garbage collection.

Describes thread-relative storage mechanisms.

Describes how asynchronous or long-running synchronous operations can be canceled by using a cancellation token.

Provides reference documentation for the Thread class, which represents a managed thread, whether it came from unmanaged code or was created in a managed application.

Provides a safe way to implement multithreading in conjunction with user-interface objects.

Describes the managed classes used to synchronize the activities of multiple threads.

Describes common problems with multithreading and strategies for avoiding problems.

Describes the Task Parallel Library and PLINQ, which greatly simplify the work of creating asynchronous and multi-threaded .NET Framework applications.