Summary

This chapter delved into the details surrounding the creation and manipulation of threads. In addition to introducing the framework-related classes and the lock keyword, this chapter gave an overview of what makes multithreaded programming difficult. In summary, the difficulty concerns not the APIs themselves, but rather, the uncertainty that multithreaded programming can introduce unless appropriate synchronization is in place.

The next chapter takes multithreaded programming in the framework a little further by explaining how to place common multithreading scenarios within a pattern so that you do not need to reinvent the design for solving the scenarios.