Roadmap for threading in Visual Basic .NET

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SUMMARY

This article provides a roadmap to learn and master Visual Basic .NET. Roadmap articles provide links to useful information, including online documentation, Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, and Microsoft white papers, to help you learn about a Microsoft product or technology.

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MORE INFORMATION

Overviews

Overview Information About Threading in Visual Basic .NET

.NET Framework Developer's Guide for Threading (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa720719.aspx)

Lock and Thread Performance Counters (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zf749bat.aspx)

Articles About Threading in .NET and Visual Basic .NET

Leverage the .NET Framework with Visual Basic .NET (http://www.microsoft.com/learning/training/roadmap/framework.mspx)

MSDN Magazine: Visual Basic .NET: Tracing, Logging, and Threading Made Easy with .NET (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb985897.aspx)

Making Asynchronous Method Calls in the .NET Environment (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb985537.aspx)

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Architecture

General Information About Threading

Threading Model (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480451.aspx)

Tasks, Processes, and Threads (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164740(VS.80).aspx)

Information About the Thread Class and the System.Threading Namespace

System.Threading Namespace (http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/system.threading.aspx)

Thread Class (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa878446.aspx)

ThreadPool Class (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.threadpool(VS.71).aspx)

Threading Objects and Features (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa720720.aspx)

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Key Concepts and QuickStart Tutorials

Key Concepts for Understanding Threading

Thread Concepts (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb145334(VS.80).aspx)

Threads and Threading (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa720724.aspx)

At the bottom of this page, you can find sample code about how to use threading in Visual Basic .NET, as well as other information about Visual Basic .NET.

QuickStart Samples for Programming in .NET Framework

Many of these examples use the System.Threading namespace.

Creating Threads (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa735652.aspx)

.NET Framework QuickStarts (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa719469.aspx)

Thread Pooling (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa720722.aspx)

Examples Demonstrating Free-threading and Other Features of Visual Basic .NET

Donkey .NET (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=990d0ec1-23ea-4408-898d-1fd5727a8890&displaylang=en)

.NET Framework Samples: Threading (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa701068.aspx)

Asynchronous Remoting (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa719600.aspx)

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How To Articles

How To articles provide step-by-step instructions to accomplish specific tasks. For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

315577 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315577/EN-US/ ) HOW TO: Create a Thread by Using Visual Basic .NET

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Guidelines

Threading Design Guidelines (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f857xew0.aspx)

Managed and Unmanaged Threading (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa720260.aspx)

Managed Threading Support (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa720258.aspx)

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