Threading

I just wrapped up my CodeStock presentation on a Brief History of (.NET) Threading. I attempted to cover the last 10 years of threading in .NET starting from .NET 1.0 all the way to today. So, think Thread, BackgroundWorker, ThreadPool, IAsyncResult moving forward to Task and async/await.

Microsoft has made strides in the realm of multithreading in the last few years by introducing things like the Task Parallel Library and now async/await support in C#. I thought it would be interesting to share some of my experiences in converting an existing WPF application over to use async/await.

Be careful with remoting calls... you might end up blocking threads