David Anderson is a software engineer with expertise in C#, .NET and other Microsoft technologies, and this is his blog.
Before proceeding, I am going to state that I will talk about multi-threading with a user interface in a different blog. It warrants its own post, so here we will focus on pure threading concepts. At some point in your…
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I’m going to cover a easy example on the new asynchronous programming model in C# 5 and .NET 4.5 with the recent release of Visual Studio 11. The example we will be writing is a small WinForm that will calculate…
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If you are still using .NET threads to do multi-threading in your applications (compared to the Task Parallel Library or something else), then it is often a mistake of developers on how they update their UI thread. First off, stay…
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Download Example Code TasksWithThreadSafeEvents.zip In this article we will be using the following technologies: .NET 4.0 Windows Forms (WinForms) Task Parallel Library (TPL, part of .NET 4.0) In a nutshell, I am talking about writing thread-safe events for WinForms. I’ve…
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