Using Threads and Threading

The topics in this section discuss the creation and management of managed threads, how to pass data to managed threads and get results back, and how to destroy threads and handle a ThreadAbortException.

In This Section

• Creating Threads and Passing Data at Start Time
  Discusses and demonstrates the creation of managed threads, including how to pass data to new threads and how to get data back.

• Pausing and Resuming Threads
  Discusses the ramifications of pausing and resuming managed threads.

• Destroying Threads
  Discusses the ramifications of destroying managed threads, and how to handle a ThreadAbortException.

• Scheduling Threads
  Discusses thread priorities and how they affect thread scheduling.

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.

• ThreadStart
  Provides reference documentation for the ThreadStart delegate that represents parameterless thread procedures.

• ParameterizedThreadStart
  Provides an easy way to pass data to a thread procedure, although without strong typing.

Related Sections

• Threads and Threading
  Provides an introduction to managed threading.