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C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming: Beginner's Guide

By Gaston C. Hillar
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  1. Taking Advantage of Multiprocessing and Multiple Cores
    • Taking Advantage of Multiprocessing and Multiple Cores
    • Mono-processor systems: The old gladiators
    • The performance waterfall
    • Multi-processor systems: Many warriors to win a battle
    • Summary
    • Processes and Threads
    • Processes—any running program
    • Threads—Independent parts of a process
    • Summary
    • BackgroundWorker—Putting Threads to Work
    • RTC: Rapid thread creation
    • Asynchronous execution
    • Synchronous execution
    • Showing the progress
    • Cancelling the job
    • Working with multiple BackgroundWorker components
    • BackgroundWorker and Timer
    • BackgroundWorker creation on the fly
    • Summary
    • Thread Class—Practical Multithreading in Applications
    • Creating threads with the Thread class
    • Sharing data between threads
    • Passing parameters to threads
    • Summary
    • Simple Debugging Techniques with Multithreading
    • Watching multiple threads
    • Debugging multithreaded applications as single-threaded applications
    • Showing partial results in multithreaded code
    • Summary
    • Understanding Thread Control with Patterns
    • Starting, joining, pausing, and restarting threads
    • Understanding the pixels' color compositions
    • Creating independent blocks of concurrent code
    • Summary
    • Dynamically Splitting Jobs into Pieces—Avoiding Problems
    • Running split jobs many times
    • Generalizing the algorithms for segmentation with classes
    • Summary
    • Simplifying Parallelism Complexity
    • Specializing the algorithms for segmentation with classes
    • Avoiding locks and many synchronization nightmares
    • Summary
    • Working with Parallelized Input/Output and Data Access
    • Queuing threads with I/O operations
    • Parallelizing database access
    • Summary
    • Parallelizing and Concurrently Updating the User Interface
    • Updating the UI from independent threads
    • Reporting progress to the UI from independent threads
    • Summary
    • Coding with .NET Parallel Extensions
    • Parallelizing loops using .NET extensions
    • Parallelizing queries
    • Summary
    • Developing a Completely Parallelized Application
    • Joining many different parallelized pieces into a complete application
    • Rationalizing multithreaded code
    • Summary
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