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Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed
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Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1272 pages
61h 18m
English
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Introducing Multithreading

A thread is a unit of work. The logic of threading-based programming is performing multiple operations concurrently so that a big operation can be split across multiple threads. The .NET Framework 4.0 offers support for multithreading via the System.Threading namespace. But .NET 4.0 also introduces a new important library, which is discussed in Chapter 45, “Parallel Programming,” which provides support for the parallel computing. For this reason this chapter provides summary information on the multithreading approach so that in next chapter you get more detailed information on the task-based programming.

Imports Directives

Code examples shown in this chapter require an Imports System.Threading directive.

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