May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1752 pages
41h 17m
English
Although processes and threads are nothing new, the manner in which you interact with these -primitives under the .NET platform has changed quite a bit (for the better). To pave the way to understanding the world of building multithreaded assemblies (see Chapter 19), let's begin by checking out how to interact with processes using the .NET base class libraries.
The System.Diagnostics namespace defines a number of types that allow you to programmatically interact with processes and various diagnostic-related types such as the system event log and performance counters. In this chapter, you are only concerned with the process-centric types defined in Table 16-1.