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C# Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   C# Programming Cookbook Quick fixes to your common C# programming problems, with a focus on C# 6.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467300
Length 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dirk Strauss Dirk Strauss
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. New Features in C# 6.0 FREE CHAPTER 2. Classes and Generics 3. Object-Oriented Programming in C# 4. Composing Event-Based Programs Using Reactive Extensions 5. Create Microservices on Azure Service Fabric 6. Making Apps Responsive with Asynchronous Programming 7. High Performance Programming Using Parallel and Multithreading in C# 8. Code Contracts 9. Regular Expressions 10. Choosing and Using a Source Control Strategy 11. Creating a Mobile Application in Visual Studio 12. Writing Secure Code and Debugging in Visual Studio 13. Creating a Web Application in Azure Index

Creating multiple threads


Sometimes, we need to create multiple threads. Before we can continue, however, we need to wait for these threads to complete doing whatever they need to do. For this, the use of tasks is best suited.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have added the using System.Threading.Tasks; statement to the top of your Recipes class.

How to do it…

  1. Create a new method called MultipleThreadWait() in your Recipes class. Then, create a second method called RunThread() with the private modifier, which takes an integer of seconds to make the thread sleep. This will simulate the process of doing some work for a variable amount of time:

    public class Recipes
    {
        public void MultipleThreadWait()
        {        
    
        }
    
        private void RunThread(int sleepSeconds)
        {        
    
        }
    }

    Note

    In reality, you would probably not call the same method. You could, for all intents and purposes, call three separate methods. Here, however, for the sake of simplicity, we will call the same method with...

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