Summary

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As we have demonstrated, it is straightforward to develop multithreaded network applications with the .NET Framework. Much of the plumbing and infrastructure has already been abstracted away in the form of a comprehensive and object-oriented set of classes. For even greater control over the network sockets, the System.Net.Socket class offers plenty of rich functionality. We also experienced how simple it is to use .NET's intrinsic support for asynchronous operations that run in the background worker thread without much code.

We hope that you found this book both helpful and enjoyable. The features in .NET give the C# developer more power than they have ever had - threading being just one of them.

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