CHAPTER 23Multithreaded Programming, Part One
Although C# contains many exciting features, one of its most powerful is its built-in support for multithreaded programming. A multithreaded program contains two or more parts that can run concurrently. Each part of such a program is called a thread, and each thread defines a separate path of execution. Thus, multithreading is a specialized form of multitasking.
Multithreaded programming relies on a combination of features defined by the C# language and by classes in the .NET Framework. Because support for multithreading is built into C#, many of the problems associated with multithreading in other languages are minimized or eliminated. As you will see, C#’s support of multithreading is both clean ...
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