Visual C++® 6 Unleashed

Chapter 16. Multithreading

by David Bennett and Mickey Williams

In This Chapter

• Win32 Processes, Threads, and Synchronization

• Using Multiple Threads in Your Application

• Using Worker Threads

• Using User-Interface Threads

• Thread Synchronization

• Creating a New Process

The Win32 operating systems support multiple processes, which are given their own memory address space. In addition, Win32 supports multiple threads within a process. When any application (or process) starts, it has one primary thread. The application then may start up additional threads, which execute independently. All threads share the one memory space of the process in which they are created.

In this chapter, you will see how you can create your own multithreaded applications with MFC, as ...