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volatile and MemoryBarrier()...

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:16:40 GMT

That part I knew. what we news to me is there is a better way to do volatile, and that is with an explicitly memory barrier before accessing the data member.. We have a an API for that: System.Threading.Thread.MemoryBarrier(). This is more efficient than using volatile because a volatile field requires all accesses to be barriers and this effects some performance optimizations.

Build Scalable ASP.NET Websites using Asyncronous Programming Models

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:10:35 GMT

Excellent MSDN Webcast on how to use Asynchronous Programming model in your ASP.NET 2.0 pages to avoid using up all your threads from threadpool for some lengthy operation (remote web service call, remote sql server query etc).. A must-watch!

A basic NamedLock class

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:49:44 GMT

Here's a bit of code I extracted from my own special baby of an application. It allows me to lock on a specific "name", rather than having to use an object instance and the built in lock construct.

Spider's Web: Spawning threads in .NET (Part 1 of 5), The Basics

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:31:02 GMT

First part of a five part post on threading in .NET

Calling delegates with BeginInvoke, Invoke, DynamicInvoke and delegate

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:38:27 GMT

Several ways of invoking delegates synchronously and asynchronously. From MSDN blogs, interesting.

Wicked Code: Asynchronous Pages in ASP.NET 2.0

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:16:04 GMT

Comprehensive interesting article about going asynchronous with ASP.NET Web Forms from Jeff Prosise.

Windows Services ThreadPool Hell

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:15:52 GMT

Overcoming issues with threadpools in windows services.

Asyncify Your Code

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:19:43 GMT

Asyncify your code. Everybody's doing it. (Chicks|Dudes)'ll dig it. It'll make you cool. An opinion on .NET asynchronous patterns, a sample application exposing its own asynchronous API, and why you should be writing asynchronous code.

Free ebook : Threading in C#

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:16:01 GMT

It has been updated since the last time it was posted here. Available in HTML and PDF.

C# Threads using anonymous methods

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:46:01 GMT

Short "how to" talks about anonymous methods in c# to simplify a thread creation.

What's wrong with this code? #1 - Discussion

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:46:01 GMT

Discussion over the thread-safe singleton snippet presented in "What's wrong with this code? #1"

Anonymous Methods vs Threads

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:46:01 GMT

What happens when you combine anonymous methods and threads - a things you need to be aware or you will encounter a strange behavior that will be hard to explain.

Anonymous Methods vs Threads

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:46:01 GMT

What happens when you combine anonymous methods and threads - a things you need to be aware or you will encounter a strange behavior that will be hard to explain.

Working With Asynchronous WebRequests

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:16:01 GMT

Do you knowh how to handle multiple asynchronous WebRequests? Do you know why the obvious way doesn't work?

.NET BackgroundWorker Mysteries Solved

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:57:57 GMT

I'm coding a multi-tier VB.NET winforms application, and decided to take advantage of the BackgroundWorker object from the System.ComponentModel namespace for any cases where code in one of my forms is calling down to methods in one of the application's DLLs. For those not familiar, the BackgroundWorker is a simplified wrapper for situations where you want to implement multi-threading for your GUI-centric application without messing around with the thread plumbing yourself.

Pattern for Properly Updating a Control from Another Thread

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:46:01 GMT

This article demonstrates how a simple property on a Form can handle thread safe communication with Controls on a Form.

Threading in C# - Free E-book

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:16:01 GMT

Very, very (an I mean it) good tutorial/ebook on C# threads and everything related to it - like syncronisation, interlock, atmoic operations, semaphors, etc....

Understanding .NET Interlocked class

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:01:01 GMT

Explanation about .NET Interlocked class and why it is just more than atomicity.

'System.Threading.Thread.Suspend()' is obsolete: 'Thread.Suspend has b

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:31:01 GMT

How to properly implement a Thread that supports Suspend and Resume.

All about threading in .NET | Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:31:01 GMT

Title says it all... Be sure to read the 2nd part of the article too... covers Waiting for Threads.

Free eBook : Threading in C#

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:01:01 GMT

Here is a nicely writtern eBook on threading in .NET 2.0. It also has some great examples.

Is The Null Coalescing Operator Thread Safe?

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:31:01 GMT

Digs into the new C# 2.0 null coalescing operator and whether or not it is thread safe.

Threading - Never Lock This Redux

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:31:02 GMT

Why locking on "this" can be a bad idea -- and how to lock in a safer manner.