Product DescriptionThis book aims to address one of the fundamental units of .NET programming - the thread. A strong understanding of the role threads play in program execution, how multiple threads can interact in order to make efficient programs, and the pitfalls to beware of when developing multithreaded applications, are all core to a developer's ability to develop effective VB.NET programs. This book will cover how .NET applications are executed, the lifecycle of a thread in .NET, how the .NET framework uses threads, how threads work in an event-driven environment, how we can create threads, how we can avoid race conditions and deadlocks, how the activity of multiple threads can be synchronized, and how to debug multithreaded applications.
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Rating: - Note
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Rating: - good: incomplete downloads
the people who gave this book 3 starts are very close The books does demonstrate the basics very well, but when it comes to the interesting pieces the download examples were missing
Rating: - Sloppy examples
I don't hate this book because it taught me some good stuff about Thread. BIG HOWEVER, the examples in this book are SLOPPY. Wrox gathered 7 people to write this thin book. No wonder they went bankrupt. And with 7 people, this is the kind of quality of sample they can come up with? Please... I will take a note of these people so that I won't ask these people to write code in the future. They obviously didn't even try to compile the code before putting it in the book!
Rating: - Not bad, but incomplete
I like the concept of the handbook series, and this particular book certainly provides a lot of good information. However, I would have expected this book to give me a good overview over all threading aspects and provide at least a starting point for further investigation.
While I recognize the fact that a book of this size can't cover everything, I was still disappointed about coverage of fairly basic subjects, such as making Windows Forms thread-safe. I am also disappointed in the coverage ... Read More
Rating: - Awesome!
I had no idea what threading was about before buying this book. I'm a self-taught programmer so I missed out on all the good stuff like this that you would have learned in college. This book gave me an AWESOME overview of how your programs are executed, and how you can boost performance with free threading in VB.NET. One reader appears to have given a bad review based on a poor code example. That's his oppinion, but the portion of the code that was important -- the threading part -- worked and worked ... Read More
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- good: incomplete downloads
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