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Creating the ThreadSynch Project

Now that you know the possible states a thread can be placed in, you will create a project that at first creates two threads. Later, you will add synchronization and a data-access simulation. Create a project by clicking New, Project from the File menu. Select the Visual C++ Project item from the list of project types and select the Managed C++ Application project template. Give your project the name ThreadSynch and click OK to create the project.

This application is going to be a common design paradigm consisting of a producer object and a consumer object. The producer object, which consists of a single thread, will create a single data object. It will then notify the consumer object, which is on a separate thread, ...