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C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming
Taking Advantage of Multiprocessing and Multiple Cores
Mono-processor systems: The old gladiators
Multi-processor systems: Many warriors to win a battle
Time for action - Coding a simple CPU-intensive loop
Time for action - Changing the cores available for a process
Time for action - Changing a process priority
Time for action - Running many processes in parallel
Time for action - Testing parallelism capabilities with processes
Time for action - Using the Process Explorer
Threads—Independent parts of a process
Time for action - Listing threads with Process Explorer
Time for action - Analyzing context switches with Process Explorer
BackgroundWorker—Putting Threads to Work
Time for action - Breaking a code in a single thread
Time for action - Defining the work to be done in a new thread
Time for action - Understanding asynchronous execution step-by-step
Time for action - Using a BackgroundWorker to report progress in the UI
Time for action - Using a BackgroundWorker to cancel the job
Time for action - Using a BackgroundWorker to detect a job completed
Time for action - Working with parameters and results
Working with multiple BackgroundWorker components
Time for action - Using many BackgroundWorker components to break the code faster
BackgroundWorker creation on the fly
Time for action - Creating BackgroundWorker components in run-time
Thread Class—Practical Multithreading in Applications
Creating threads with the Thread class
Time for action - Defining methods for encryption and decryption
Time for action - Running the encryption in a new thread using the Thread class
Time for action - Updating the UI while running threads
Time for action - Executing the thread synchronously
Time for action - Using lists for thread creation on the fly I
Time for action - Using lists for thread creation on the fly II
Simple Debugging Techniques with Multithreading
Time for action - Understanding the difficulty in debugging concurrent threads
Time for action - Finding the threads
Time for action - Assigning names to threads
Debugging multithreaded applications as single-threaded applications
Time for action - Leaving a thread running alone
Showing partial results in multithreaded code
Time for action - Explaining the encryption procedure
Time for action - Isolating results
Understanding Thread Control with Patterns
Starting, joining, pausing, and restarting threads
Time for action - Defining methods for counting old stars
Understanding the pixels' color compositions
Time for action - Running the stars counter in many concurrent threads
Creating independent blocks of concurrent code
Time for action - Waiting for the threads' signals
Dynamically Splitting Jobs into Pieces—Avoiding Problems
Time for action - Defining new methods for running many times
Time for action - Running a multithreaded algorithm many times
Time for action - Analyzing the memory usage
Time for action - Collecting the garbage at the right time
Generalizing the algorithms for segmentation with classes
Time for action - Creating a parallel algorithm piece class
Time for action - Using a generic method in order to create pieces
Time for action - Creating a parallel algorithm coordination class
Time for action - Adding useful classic coordination methods
Simplifying Parallelism Complexity
Specializing the algorithms for segmentation with classes
Time for action - Preparing the parallel algorithm classes for the factory method
Time for action - Creating a specialized parallel algorithm piece subclass
Time for action - Creating a specialized parallel algorithm coordination subclass
Time for action —Overriding methods in the coordination subclass
Programming the piece creation method
Time for action - Defining a new method to create an algorithm instance
Time for action - Running the Sunspot Analyzer in many concurrent independent pieces
Avoiding locks and many synchronization nightmares
Working with Parallelized Input/Output and Data Access
Queuing threads with I/O operations
Time for action - Creating a class to run an algorithm in an independent thread
Time for action - Putting the logic into methods to simplify multithreading
Time for action - Creating the methods for queuing requests
Time for action - Running concurrent encryptions on demand using a pool of threads
Parallelizing and Concurrently Updating the User Interface
Updating the UI from independent threads
Time for action - Creating a safe method to update the user interface
Time for action - Invoking a user interface update from a thread
Time for action - Identifying threads and giving them names
Time for action - Understanding how to invoke delegates step-by-step
Time for action - Creating safe counters using delegates and avoiding concurrency problems
Reporting progress to the UI from independent threads
Time for action - Creating the classes to show a progress bar column in a DataGridView
Time for action - Creating a class to hold the information to show in the DataGridView
Time for action - Invoking multiple asynchronous user interface updates from many threads
Time for action - Updating progress percentages from worker threads
Coding with .NET Parallel Extensions
Parallelizing loops using .NET extensions
Time for action - Downloading and installing the .NET Parallel Extensions
Time for action - Downloading and installing the imaging library
Time for action - Creating an independent class to run in parallel without side effects
Time for action - Running concurrent nebula finders using a parallelized loop
Time for action - Showing the results in the UI
Time for action - Providing feedback to the UI using a producer-consumer scheme
Time for action - Invoking a UI update from a task
Time for action - Parallelized counter
Developing a Completely Parallelized Application
Joining many different parallelized pieces into a complete application
Time for action - Creating an opacity effect in an independent thread
Time for action - Creating a safe method to change the opacity
Time for action - Creating a class to run a task in an independent thread
Time for action - Putting the logic into methods to simplify running tasks in a pool of threads
Time for action - Queuing requests, running threads, and updating the UI
Time for action - Overriding methods in the brightness adjustment coordination subclass
Time for action - Starting new threads in a new window
Time for action - Showing new windows without blocking the user interface