Working with Threads
This lesson discusses the various ways in which we can create and run threads.
Threads
In one of the previous sections, we defined thread as the smallest unit of execution. In this section, we'll look at all the ways to create threads.
Specifying ThreadStart
The class ThreadStart
represents the method that a thread will execute. Essentially, ThreadStart
is a delegate. A delegate is nothing but a reference to a method. Delegates are similar to function pointers that exist in C and C++. All delegates implicitly inherit from the System.Delegate
class.
We can specify an instance or a static method when instantiating a ...