By SkySigal on 9/30/2008 11:52 PM

Since we're on the subject of threads ...here's a good post on the concept of SpinLocks

http://blogs.msdn.com/pedram/archive/2008/06/02/coordination-data-structures-spinlock.aspx

By SkySigal on 8/27/2008 12:14 AM

One question that comes up regularly with regards to Threads and IIdentity/IPrincipal, is what happens after you have upgraded the CurrentPrincipal of the AppDomain/ primary Thread from the default GenericPrincipal/GenericIdentity to a custom solution, and then you spawn a secondary thread: does the secondary thread inherit the new IPrincipal/IIdentity, or revert back to the generic one?

This is what happens:

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By SkySigal on 8/27/2008 12:02 AM

Src: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/issue/?magname=PopularScience&magdate=6-1940

By SkySigal on 8/12/2008 4:36 AM

In a previous post we introduced the fundamentals of threading (Start, Abort, Join, CriticalRegions).
One thing we didn't explain was how to share data between threads without causing a right stuff-up (lovely Kiwi term :-) )

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By SkySigal on 8/11/2008 6:10 PM

Starting multiple secondary parameterized threads and wait for them to all finish, is marvelously easy in C#.

All you have to do is follow the following simple recipe.

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By SkySigal on 4/17/2008 4:30 PM

Since NET 2.0, you can create Delegates on the fly to work with UI cross threading issues (when InvokeRequired=true):

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