.NET Application Model
Serialization gave you a concrete example of the flexible environment the .NET Framework provides for writing code. Now let us take a look at the model in which .NET applications run. The Win32 environment in which a program runs is called its process. This environment consists of
the address space in which the code and data of the program resides.
a set of environmental variables that is associated with the program.
a current drive and directory.
one or more threads.
Threads
A thread is the actual execution path of a program's code. One or more threads run inside of a process to allow for multiple execution paths inside of a process. For example, with multiple threads a program can update the user interface with partial results ...
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