Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers (2nd Edition)

The most general definition of beauty. . .Multeity in Unity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Elbert Hubbard

Do not block the way of inquiry.

Charles Sanders Peirce

A person with one watch knows what time it is; a person with two watches is never sure.

Proverb

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn:

  • What threads are and why they are useful.

  • How threads enable you to implement and manage concurrent activities.

  • The life cycle of a thread.

  • Thread priorities and scheduling.

  • To create and execute Threads.

  • Thread synchronization.

  • What producer/consumer relationships are and how they are implemented with multithreading.

  • To ensure that the User Interface thread performs all GUI modifications that are initiated by other threads in a Windows application.

Outline

  • 15.1 Introduction

  • 15.2 Thread States: Life Cycle of a Thread

  • 15.3 Thread Priorities and Thread Scheduling

  • 15.4 Creating and Executing Threads

  • 15.5 Thread Synchronization and Class Monitor

  • 15.6 Producer/Consumer Relationship without Thread Synchronization

  • 15.7 Producer/Consumer Relationship with Thread Synchronization

  • 15.8 Producer/Consumer Relationship: Circular Buffer

  • 15.9 Multithreading with GUIs

  • 15.10 Wrap-Up

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