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The semaphore class works similar to the Monitor and Mutex class but in this you can set a limit on how many threads have access to a critical area.
A monitor is a mechanism for ensuring that only one thread at a time may be running a certain piece of code (critical section).
Explains C# thread priority levels and how they affect scheduling, with examples of handling exceptions inside thread entry methods.
We know that every thread has a name property that you can set for the benefit of debugging. Thread’s name is displayed in the threads window and debug location toolbar.
A process is a program that is running on your computer. This can be anything from a small background task, such as a spell-checker or system events handler to a full-blown application like Internet Explorer or Microsoft Word. Every process have at least one thread.
Learn how to wrap blocking, non-thread-safe C# objects so UI code remains responsive, can report progress, and can handle cancellation during lengthy operations.
Learn how to use the System.Threading.Thread class and its methods in VB.NET.
In this article let's see about Parallel.Invoke method.
There was a requirement that the application can’t run more than one instance, and if already running then show the message to the user and set that window as active. Here we will see how to do that.
In this article I will explain you about the Diagnostics and Process in C#.
In this article we will see one of the bad practices developers always do.
PLINQ is a welcome addition to the .NET 4.0 framework, allowing us to operate on collection elements in parallel. This article examines the performance improvements of PLINQ over LINQ when doing heavy calculations on a large collection of genomes in a particular learning algorithm.
Learn how to update Windows Forms controls safely from a worker thread by using Control.Invoke to prevent cross-thread InvalidOperationException errors.
The sample project attached with this article shows how to use the Timer control available in .NET and C#.
This article gives you a complete overview about a library of .net 2.0 named jibu.
In my last article I discussed a general approach to building an async architecture. In this article we’ll look at extending this basic architecture and incorporating async web services.
Async web pages which are primarily used as a server performance enhancement. There are two main methods we will be looking at that are used to execute operations asynchronously from web pages: Page.AddOnPreRenderCompleteAsync() and Page.AddOnPreRenderCompleteAsync().
This is a continuation of a set of articles on Asynchronous multi-threaded development using C#. In this article we'll cover the basics of building an event-driven architecture which will be a basis for most multi-threaded apps. Also we'll cover async read/write operations on a file.
In my last couple articles we looked at basic ways to have long-running i/o bound process be handled by the ThreadPool using the asynchronous programming model. In this article we’ll take a look at coding async calls against SqlServer which really comes in handy in production environments where our database is on another machine.
Learn how to load XML files in the background with C# threads and display their contents in a Windows Forms TreeView control.
This is simple multithreading application that sort integers values in an array.
This is simple Client/Server (multi-threading) program that transfers data. Server can handle multiple clients.
This example shows how threads can help us to make User interface more responsive when we have some background jobs.
Any application must have one or more processes. A Process is structural unit with a memory block and using some set of resources. For each executable, the Windows operating system creates some isolated memory block. This article tries to explain the use of lock basics of Multithreading in C# .Net.
This articles tells the importance and meaning of a thread safe piece of code in C#.
Writing multithreaded application in C# in pretty easy. The following article shows the steps to be followed while writing a multithreaded program.
The specific thread level storage is known as thread local storage or TLS for short. The .NET threading namespace allows .NET developers to use TLS from within their multi-threaded applications to store data that is unique to each thread.
This article is the first of the series of 4. I will demonstrate the use of threading in web applications by implementing a simply search engine. The following 3 articles in the series will be a Port Scanner, a Reverse DNS and a Web Hammer respectively.
MessageLoopLib is a stripped down version of a complete, threading communication subsystem Ive written. This implementation is a single thread created in the GUI constructor. Ive dropped all thread management and have had to change some of the message code to accommodate this.
The Threads makes us able to run multitasks at a time. In fact Computers (John von Neumann Architecture) don't execute the tasks parallel .The OS gives threads permission (depend on thread priority) to work on CPU. The sufficient degree of parallelism keeps the CPU busy and it is efficient.
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