December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 6m
English
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Chapter 11. Creating Multithreaded Visual Basic .NET Applications
IN THIS CHAPTER
You were first introduced to Visual Basic .NET's multithreading capabilities in Chapter 3, “Major VB .NET Changes.” Chapter 3 had you create an application and place a procedure on a separate thread to keep you from blocking the execution in the calling procedure. This chapter starts with a similar example, and then proceeds to more advanced topics with the multithreading process.
In computer terms, a thread is something on which some execution occurs. On a single-processor system, the processor ...