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To provide a great user experience applications need to do a lot of thingsmany of them seemingly at the same time. Professional applications do this using multi-threading. Until recently however, creating true multi-threaded applications wasn't a simple task and wasn't available to most developers. Thankfully, multi-threading is a fundamental feature of the .NET Framework and developers can write multi-threaded applications with relative ease, no matter whether they use managed C++ code, C#, VB.NET, or any other .NET language.
by Markus Egger
December 17, 2002
he .NET Framework introduces advanced free threading as a fundamental building block. The Framework offers solutions even for advanced issues, enabling developers to build truly thread-safe applications in a relatively simple fashion. This makes multi-threading available to all .NET developers, no matter what language they choose to implement their solutions.
What Is Multi-Threading?
In simple terms, multi-threading is the ability to run different pieces of code (methods) seemingly at the same time. One can imagine multi-threading like multi-tasking within a single application.
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he .NET Framework introduces advanced free threading as a fundamental building block. The Framework offers solutions even for advanced issues, enabling developers to build truly thread-safe applications in a relatively simple fashion. This makes multi-threading available to all .NET developers, no matter what language they choose to implement their solutions.
