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Stop Polluting the UI Thread - Use a ThreadBarrier

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:01:10 GMT

A ThreadBarrier is a technique for simplifying the interaction between the UI and a worker thread. No longer do UI Controls need to check InvokeRequired and do the posting of events from a worker thread.

Empty try blocks

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:01:02 GMT

The article explains why you might see functions that do nothing in the "try" block.

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?

Creating a simple, reusable Windows Service (template code) - Part II

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:31:02 GMT

In part I, we examined how we can extend the Service Control methods by adding methods for all states of the Windows service in addition to the two methods provided by the designer. As you may remember, each of those methods called our own private Service Control method. Our private Service Control methods are implemented below:

Creating a simple, reusable Windows Service (template code) - Part I

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:01:02 GMT

In this article, we'll see a way to create a simple Windows Service that can be reusable in that it can be used as the basis for any repeated operation that we would like to transform to a Windows Service.In other words, we can create our own assembly and then have the Windows Service call its entry point repeatedly over a period of time. By extending the code provided, you can even have multiple threads running at the same time.