Chapter 18. Building Multithreaded Applications
In the previous chapter, you examined the relationship between processes, application domains, and contexts. This chapter builds on your newfound knowledge by examining how the .NET platform allows you to build multithreaded applications and examines various ways to keep shared resources thread-safe.
You'll begin by revisiting the .NET delegate type and come to understand its intrinsic support for asynchronous method invocations. As you'll see, this technique allows you to invoke a method on a secondary thread of execution automatically. Next, you'll investigate the types within the System.Threading namespace. Here you'll examine numerous types (Thread, ThreadStart, etc.) that allow you to easily ...
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