Essential C# 6.0

C. Interfacing with Multithreading Patterns prior to the TPL and C# 6.0

From Chapter 18, readers will recall that multithreading patterns are used to address the multithreading complexities of monitoring an asynchronous operation, thread pooling, avoiding deadlocks, and implementing atomicity and synchronization across operations and data access. In the ten years prior to the introduction of .NET 4.5 and C# 5.0, there were six versions of the .NET Framework and four versions of the C# language, and a similar number of corresponding multithreading patterns emerged. During that time, however, there were numerous improvements in multithreading and—as is frequently the case with frameworks and even languages—some patterns from those earlier versions ...