Ch16.md

Chapter 16 Examples

Examples from Chapter 16 (Multithreading) of Programming C# 8.0 (O'Reilly).

Threads

• Example 1. Object visibility and methods
• Example 2. Non-thread-safe use of a thread-safe collection
• Example 3. Using ThreadLocal<T>>
• Example 4. Creating threads
• Example 5. Running code on the thread pool with a Task
• Example 6. Using the thread pool and then SynchronizationContext
• Example 7. Using ExecutionContext

Synchronization

• Example 8. Protecting state with lock
• Example 9. How lock blocks expand
• Example 10. Wait and Pulse
• Example 11. Protecting access to a decimal with SpinLock
• Example 12. Waiting for work to complete with ManualResetEvent
• Example 13. Using CompareExchange
• Example 14. Using LazyInitializer

Tasks

• Example 15. Task-based web download
• Example 16. Getting a task’s results with await
• Example 17. A continuation
• Example 18. Scheduling a continuation of a continuation
• Example 19. Scheduling a continuation on the UI thread
• Example 20. Using TaskCompletionSource<T>
• Example 21. An APM pair and the corresponding synchronous method
• Example 22. Parallel convolution