Threading in VB.NET

This article explains about the Synchronization in Multithreading. Threads are a powerful abstraction for allowing parallelized operations: graphical updates can happen while another thread is performing computations, two threads can handle two simultaneous network requests from a single process, and the list goes on.

The .NET framework provides very useful System.Collections namespace, which offers classes like ArrayList, Queue, HashTable and more. However these classes are not thread safe. The attached library provides a thread safe wrapper to some of these classes.

This article describes how to use threading model in .NET Framework including creating, joining, suspending, killing, and interlocking threads.