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Visual C# 2010 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
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Visual C# 2010 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

by Allen Jones, Adam Freeman
March 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1016 pages
20h 42m
English
Apress
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Chapter 4. Threads, Processes, and Synchronization

One of the strengths of the Microsoft Windows operating system is that it allows many programs (processes) to run concurrently and allows each process to perform many tasks concurrently (using multiple threads). When you run an executable application, a new process is created. The process isolates your application from other programs running on the computer. The process provides the application with its own virtual memory and its own copies of any libraries it needs to run, allowing your application to execute as if it were the only application running on the machine.

Along with the process, an initial thread is created that runs your Main method. In single-threaded applications, this one thread ...

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