Chapter 7-Lesson 1

• Thread class is used to create and start a thread.
• ManagedThreadId property may not be the same as operating system thread ID.
• Abort( ) methods actually raises the ThreadAbortException to kill the thread.
• Resume( ) and Suspend( ) methods have been deprecated.
• In order to notify the thread host about the critical region of a thread, use static methods BeginCriticalRegion( ) and EndCriticalRegion( ) of Thread class. Use these methods inside a method that would be used as a thread.
• The static Sleep( ) method blocks the current thread for a certain amount of time during which other threads may run.
• SpinWait( ) does the same but does not allow other thread to run during that time.
• Join( ) method of Thread class asks the host thread to wait until the child/worker thread has finished executing.
• ParameterizedThreadStart delegate is used to represent threads that require parameters/arguments for calling.
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