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Managed Threading Basics 

The first five topics of this section are designed to help you determine when to use managed threading, and to explain some basic features. For information on classes that provide additional features, see Threading Objects and Features and Overview of Synchronization Primitives.

The rest of the topics in this section cover advanced topics, including the interaction of managed threading with the Windows operating system.

In This Section

  • Threads and Threading
    Discusses the advantages and drawbacks of multiple threads, and outlines the scenarios in which you might create threads or use thread pool threads.
  • Exceptions in Managed Threads
    Describes the behavior of unhandled exceptions in threads for different versions of the .NET Framework, in particular the situations in which they result in termination of the application.
  • Managed Thread States
    Describes the basic thread states, and explains how to detect whether a thread is running.

Reference

  • Thread
    Provides reference documentation for the Thread class, which represents a managed thread, whether it came from unmanaged code or was created in a managed application.
  • BackgroundWorker
    Provides a safe way to implement multithreading in conjunction with user-interface objects.