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ThreadRelatedArticles

This page is intented to summarize all thread related articles.

Threads Beginners Guide

The Threads Beginners Guide is the place to start if you haven’t done any threads before. It’s intended for complete beginners.

ThreadPool Deadlocks

A common problem in .NET applications that is exacerbated in Mono is a deadlock in the ThreadPool. This deadlock in the threadpool is usually manifested by requests timing out (in particular Http requests, but this might happen pretty much anywhere). Read more…

Responsive Applications

A common problem faced by GUI application developers is keeping an application responsive while a long-running operation is running. There are a number of approaches that can be used depending on the situation and the complexity of the computation.

There are a number of reasons why an application might become unresponsive to a user: the application might be performing a long-running computation or it might be blocking on data to become available from the network, a file system or the operating system. Read more…

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