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Using ThreadPools in Windows Applications

By Vipul Patel - Published 03/20/2015

Windows developers, explore the basics of using thread pools to accomplish tasks asynchronously.

Tray Notify - Part III (WCF Service)

By Raymond Hawco - Published 09/01/2010

Part three of a series that illustrates using WCF to communicate between a Windows service and client application.

Tray Notify - Part I (Getting Started)

By Raymond Hawco - Published 05/19/2010

Part one of a series that illustrates using WCF to communicate between a Windows service and client application.

The Practical Guide to Multithreading - Part 1

By Ajay Vijayvargiya - Published 10/02/2009

Understand from this guide how and when - as well as when not - to use multithreading.

Extending Microsoft's Concurrency and Coordination Runtime with MSMQ

By Jeffrey Juday - Published 08/11/2009

Join Microsoft's Concurrency and Coordination Runtime and MSMQ to coordinate work across processes on multiple computers.

Using the Task Parallel Library and PLINQ to Go Parallel

By Jani Jarvinen - Published 06/30/2009

With more and more computers using a multi-core processor, the free lunch of increased clock speeds and the inherent performance gains are over. Software developers must instead make sure their applications take use of all the cores available in an efficient manner. New features in .NET 4.0 mean that managed code developers too can join the party.