Multithreading Topics

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Visual C++ allows you to have multiple concurrent threads of execution running simultaneously. With multithreading, you can spin off background tasks, manage simultaneous streams of input, manage a user interface, and much more. This family of articles covers two ways to use multiple threads:

• Using C and the Win32 API

• Using C++ and MFC

What do you want to know more about?

• What multithreading is all about

• Win32 support for multithreading

• MFC support for multithreading

• Multithreading issues and problem areas

• Sample Win32 multithreading code

• Sample MFC multithreading code

• Sharing resources among threads

• Thread local storage

• Synchronizing threads that use shared resources

• Threads with a user interface

• Worker threads for background processing

• Programming tips for MFC multithreaded programming