Multithreaded Programming for Components with System.Threading

The BackgroundWorker component replaces and adds functionality to the System.Threading namespace; however, the System.Threading namespace is retained for both backward compatibility and future use, if you choose. For more information, see BackgroundWorker Component Overview.

In This Section

Walkthrough: Authoring a Simple Multithreaded Component with Visual Basic: Demonstrates creating a multithreaded component using Visual Basic.
Walkthrough: Authoring a Simple Multithreaded Component with Visual C#: Demonstrates creating a multithreaded component using Visual C#.
How to: Create Threads: Explains how to create a new thread of execution.
How to: Coordinate Multiple Threads of Execution: Describes how to use locks to coordinate threads and ensure atomic execution of code.
Thread-Safe Components: Discusses what makes a component thread-safe and how to implement thread-safety in your components.
Event Logs and Multithreaded Components: Explains issues involved with using event logs with multiple threads of execution.
How to: Log Events for Multithreaded Components: Describes how to coordinate using an EventLog component with multiple threads of operation.
How to: Manipulate Controls from Threads: Explains the special considerations when manipulating controls with multiple threads.

System.Threading namespace: Provides classes and interfaces that enable multithreaded programming.

Multithreaded Programming with the Event-based Asynchronous Pattern: Describes the standardized way to package a component that has asynchronous features.
BackgroundWorker Component: Allows you to run time-consuming operations in the background, on a thread different from your application's main UI thread.