Chapter 1: Managed Threading Concepts

Parallel programming and concurrency are becoming more prevalent in modern .NET development. Most developers today have been exposed to asynchronous programming with the async and await keywords in C#. This book will cover all of these concepts in the chapters ahead.

In this chapter, we will start with the basics of how to work with managed threading in .NET. You will learn how to create and destroy threads, handle exceptions, synchronize data, and utilize the objects provided by .NET to handle background operations. Additionally, you will gain a basic understanding of how threads can be managed in a .NET application. The practical examples in this chapter will illustrate how to leverage managed threading in C# projects.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• .NET threading basics
• Creating and destroying threads
• Handling threading exceptions
• Synchronizing data across threads
• Scheduling and canceling work

By starting with the core concepts of threading in .NET, you will gain a solid foundation as you move forward with your learning throughout this book. It is important to understand the basics to prevent common mistakes from being made while introducing threading and asynchrony to .NET applications. It is all too easy to exhaust resources or put the application’s data in an invalid state. Let’s get started with managed threading with C#.