General Threading Questions

Question

I'm kind of new to threading in C# and had a couple of questions about what is out there:

• What are the ways to implement threads in C#? (i.e. I can think of two off the top: backgroundWorker, Thread, etc)

  • How do you cause deadlock and if there is deadlock how do you get out of it (in C#)?

  • How does backgroundworker get implemented? It seems to have an underlying set of methods, but I'd like to know what those methods and instantiations are...

Thanks!

Answer 1

The definitive beginner's guide to threading in C# is here: http://www.albahari.com/threading/

The documentation on BackgroundWorker, with a complete working example, is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.backgroundworker.aspx

Deadlocks are explained here: http://www.albahari.com/threading/part2.aspx

Threads can be implemented in many ways. You can use them directly, pull them from a ThreadPool, or use them indirectly using the Task Parallel Library.