By Randy Charles Morin
One of my New Year wishes for this coming year was that the standard committees would
agree on threading classes for the C++ language. This limitation of the C++ language
standard means that I have to rewrite my threading library each time I start a new job with
a new company. I've always wished there was a standard threading library that I could use
wherever I go.
Fortunately, C# does not have this disadvantage. Right from the get go, the language
inherits an entire set of threading classes from the dotNet framework. Th
e dotNet namespaces includes 14 utility classes, 4 exception classes, 2
structures, 6 delegates and 3 enumerations. I'll present most of these in this article.
Intermediate Level
This article is written for the intermediate and senior C# developer. Working knowledge
of the C# programming language and dotNet framework is assumed. The article was
written with a Beta version of VS.NET and associated documentation. Changes, although
not anticipated, might occur before final release of VS.NET that invalidate portions of this
article.
Creating Threads
Creating a thread in C# is close to trivial, but not quite. The only non-trivial thing about
creating a thread is dotNet delegate-classes. Let me explain in few words what is a
delegate class. The delegate is a wrapper around a code construct in the dotNet. The code
construct could be an object instance, an instance method or a static method. Delegates
are used when you want to pass one of the three code constructs as a parameter to
another method.
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Copyright 2002-03 Randy Charles Morin
