Cool eBook of the Day - “Threading in C#”

Threading in C# by Joseph Albahari

GETTING STARTED
Introduction and Concepts
Join and Sleep
How Threading Works
Threads vs Processes
Threading’s Uses and Misuses

Creating and Starting Threads
Passing Data to a Thread
Naming Threads
Foreground vs Background
Thread Priority
Exception Handling

Thread Pooling
Thread Pooling via TPL
Thread Pooling Without TPL
Optimizing the Thread Pool

BASIC SYNCHRONIZATION
+ Synchronization Essentials
+ Locking
+ Thread Safety
+ Event Wait Handles
+ Synchronization Contexts

USING THREADS
+ Event-Based Asynch Pattern
+ BackgroundWorker
+ Interrupt and Abort
+ Safe Cancellation
+ Lazy Initialization
+ Thread-Local Storage
+ Timers

ADVANCED THREADING
+ Nonblocking Synchronization
+ Signaling with Wait and Pulse
+ The Barrier Class
+ Reader/Writer Locks
+ Suspend and Resume
+ Aborting Threads

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING
+ Parallel Programming
+ Why PFX?
+ PLINQ
+ The Parallel Class
+ Task Parallelism
+ Working with AggregateException
+ Concurrent Collections
+ SpinLock and SpinWait

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This is one of those deep a level 300/400 eBook which starts digging into code in the first couple pages…

Here’s a snip from the PDF;