Summary
In this chapter, we covered the basics of managed threading and the System.Threading.Thread class. You should now have a good understanding of how to create and schedule a thread in .NET. You learned about some of the techniques for passing data to threads and how to use background threads for non-critical operations, so they don’t prevent your application from terminating. Finally, we used two different techniques for canceling threads in .NET.
In the next chapter, Chapter 2, we will learn how .NET has simplified and improved parallel programming and concurrency for developers over the last 20 years. Significant improvements were added in .NET 4.5 in the form of the async and await keywords, and .NET Core removed some of the legacy threading constructs of .NET Framework.
