Threading Made Easy

In the times when all the programming world was not writing database applications; there was an important concept “THREADING”.It may sound hard but actually not that hard.

Firstly a threat is an execution path able to run simultaneously with other threads.

This is how you create a basic thread

 new Thread (TestMethod).Start(); 

this runs the TestMethodmethod in a new thread.

Thread t = new Thread (TestMethod);

t.Start();

is another way of starting a thread.You can name your thread with t.Name also.

You can stop a thread with Thread.Sleep();

class ThreadTest

{

    static void Main()

    {

        Thread t = new Thread(Go);

        Thread b = new Thread(No);

        t.Start();

        t.Join();

        b.Start();

        Console.Read();

    }

    static void Go()

    {

        for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)

            Console.Write("X");

    }

    static void No()

    {

        for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)

            Console.Write("Y");

    }

}

thread.join(); waits for the thread to continue

A thread is said to be preempted when its execution is interrupted due to an external factor such as time-slicing. In most situations, a thread has no control over when and where it's preempted.Threads have their own stack but share heap

Passing Data to Threads ;If you want to pass just a single parameter to a thread you can use parameterizedThreadStart

public delegate void ParameterizedThreadStart (object obj);

static void Main()

{

    Thread t = new Thread(Go);

    Thread b = new Thread(No);

    t.Start("Hi");

    t.Join();

    b.Start();

    Console.Read();

}

static void Go(object o)

{

    for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)

        Console.Write(o.ToString());

}

static void No()

{

    for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)

        Console.Write("Y");

}

    }

Ok this is the basics.I will continue with another post.