Threading is a complex subject, it is easy to get yourself entangled in threads which don’t behave as you expect them to. There are many constructs and approaches to synchronize threads or achieve parallelism, each with its own quirks and advantages. There are good old threads, there are thread pools, task parallelism, Parallel class, Async methods and Timers. Then there are a myriad ways of synchronizing thread like locks, spin locks, mutex, semaphores, event wait handles, concurrent collections, Synchronization attribute, Memory Barriers, Interlocked class, Monitor’s Wait/Pulse and Reader Writer Lock . To make sense of it all, Threading in C# by Joseph Albahari is thorough reference on the subject. It is available online, free of charge in hypertext format which makes it particularly useful as a reference.
Threading in C# is also there as a chapter in somewhat abridged form in author’s book ‘C# in a Nutshell‘.
