5.6 Threading

The FCL provides rich support for building multithreaded applications, including thread and thread-pool management, thread-synchronization mechanisms, such as monitors , mutexes , events, reader/writer locks, etc., and access to such underlying platform features as I/O completion ports and system timers (see Chapter 16).

For more information, see the following namespaces:

 System.Threading System.Timers 

Important related types in other namespaces include System.Thread and System.ThreadStaticAttribute .