C# 2008 and 2005 threaded programming beginner's guide : exploit the power of multiple processors for faster, more responsive software. - Description based on print version record. - "Learn by doing: less theory, more results"--Cover. - Includes index

416 Pages·2009·14.015 MB·English

by  Gastón C Hillar

C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded
Programming
Beginner's Guide
Exploit the power of multiple processors for faster,
more responsive software.
Gastón C. Hillar
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming
Beginner's Guide
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First published: January 2009
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Credits
Author Project Team Leader
Gastón C. Hillar Lata Basantani
Reviewers Project Coordinator
Bogdan Brinzarea-Iamandi Rajashree Hamine
Jerry L. Spohn
Ron Steckly Project Editorial Manager
Abhijeet Deobhakta
Senior Acquisition Editor
David Barnes Indexer
Monica Ajmera
Development Editor
Shilpa Dube Proofreaders
Chris Smith
Technical Editor Ron Steckly
Rakesh Shejwal
Production Coordinator
Editorial Team Leader Rajni R. Thorat
Akshara Aware
Cover Work
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Sumathi Sridhar
About the Author
Gastón C. Hillar has been working with computers since he was eight. He began
programming with the legendary Texas TI-99/4A and Commodore 64 home computers
in the early 80s.
He has a Bachelor degree in Computer Science, graduated with honors, and an MBA
(Master in Business Administration), graduated with an outstanding thesis.
He has worked as developer, architect, and project manager for many companies in Buenos
Aires, Argentina. He was project manager in one of the most important mortgage loan
banks in Latin America for several years. Now, he is an independent IT consultant working
for several Spanish, German, and Latin American companies, and a freelance author. He is
always looking for new adventures around the world.
He also works with electronics (he is an electronics technician). He is always researching
about new technologies and writing about them. He owns an IT and electronics laboratory
with many servers, monitors, and measuring instruments.
He is the author of more than 40 books in Spanish about computer science, modern
hardware, programming, systems development, software architecture, business applications,
balanced scorecard applications, IT project management, Internet, and electronics, published
by Editorial HASA and Grupo Noriega Editores.
He usually writes articles for leading Spanish magazines "Mundo Linux",
"Solo Programadores", and "Resistor".
He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his son, Kevin. When not tinkering with computers, he
enjoys developing and playing with wireless virtual reality devices and electronics toys with
his father, his son, and his nephew Nico.
You can reach him at [email protected]
Acknowledgement
When writing this book, I was fortunate to work with an excellent team at Packt Publishing
Ltd, whose contributions vastly improved the presentation of this book. David Barnes
helped me to transform the idea into the final book and to give my first steps working with
the Beginner's Guide. Rajashree Hamine made everything easier with her incredible time
management. Shilpa Dube helped me realize my vision for this book and provided many
sensible suggestions regarding the text, the format, and the flow. The reader will notice her
excellent work. Rakesh Shejwal made the sentences, the paragraphs, and the code easier to
read and to understand. He has added great value to the final drafts.
I would like to thank my technical reviewers Bogdan Brinzarea-Iamandi, Jerry L. Spohn, and Ron
Steckly and proofreaders Chris Smith and Ron Steckly, for their thorough reviews and insightful
comments. I was able to incorporate some of the knowledge and wisdom they have gained in
their many years in the software development industry. The examples and the code include the
great feedback provided by Bogdan Brinzarea. Bogdan helped me a lot to include better and
shorter code to simplify the learning process.
I wish to acknowledge Hector A. Algarra, who always helped me to improve my writing.
Special thanks go to my wife, Vanesa S. Olsen, my son Kevin, my nephew, Nicolas, my father,
Jose Carlos, who acted as a great sounding board and participated in many hours of technical
discussions, my sister, Silvina, who helped me when my grammar was confusing, and my
mother Susana. They always supported me during the production of this book.
About the Reviewers
Bogdan Brinzarea-Iamandi has a strong background in Computer Science holding
a Master and Bachelor Degree from the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty of
the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, and also an Auditor diploma from the
Computer Science department at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France. His main interests cover
a wide area from embedded programming, distributed and mobile computing, and new
web technologies.
Currently, he is employed as Supervisor within the team of the Alternative Channels Sector
of the IT Division in Banca Romaneasca, a Member of the National Bank of Greece. He is
Project Manager for Internet Banking and he coordinates other projects related to new
technologies and applications to be implemented in the banking area.
Bogdan is also the author of two AJAX books, the popular AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive
Web Applications and Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials, also published by Packt.
Jerry Spohn is a Manager of Development for a medium-sized software development
firm in Exton, Pennsylvania. His responsibilities include managing a team of developers and
assisting in architecting a large multi-lingual, multi-currency loan account system, written in
COBOL and JAVA. He is also responsible for maintaining and tracking a system-wide program
and database documentation web site, in which he uses DotNetNuke as the portal for
this information.
Jerry is also the owner of Spohn Software LLC., a small consulting firm that helps small
businesses in the area with all aspects of maintaining and improving their business
processes. This includes helping with the creation and maintenance of web sites, general
office productivity issues, and computer purchasing and networking. Spohn Software, as
a firm, prefers to teach its clients how to solve their problems internally, rather than acquire
a long-term contract, thereby making the business more productive and profitable in
the future.
Jerry currently works and resides in Pennsylvania, with his wife, Jacqueline, and his two sons,
Nicholas and Nolan.
Ron Steckly has been developing various platforms for the past several years, recently
adopting .NET as his platform of choice. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley with highest
distinction in 2004. He recently moved back to sunny Northern California after living
for several years in Manhattan. He is currently working as a Web Application Engineer
at Empirical Education in Palo Alto, CA and authoring a book on using MySQL with .NET
for Packt Publishing. In his spare time, he enjoys studying mathematics (particularly
combinatorics), statistics, economics, and new programming languages.
I would like to thank my good friends Johannes Castner, Josh Brandt-Young,
and David Aaron Engle for all their kindness and patience over the years.

To my son, Kevin