C# - When to use threads instead of tasks
I have not yet found a situation where I needed a thread instead of a Task. Threads are a lower level concept when compared to tasks. »
C# - How to easily create and start a new thread
It is quite easy to start a new thread in C#. All you need is to instantiate a new object of the type Thread and call »
What is the lock statement (monitor) in C#? and what you should look out for
In this post I will show how the lock statement in C# works and what you should look out for when using it. It is well »
C# - What is the difference between threads and tasks?
I had a discussion a couple of weeks ago about tasks and threads. It occurred to me that I had rarely used threads and mostly used »
C# - How to break an async/await chain when calling something that is not asynchronous
I have sometimes found myself - at the end of a long chain of using async/await - calling something that is not using async. Sometimes »
C# - Iterate through each item from a list in parallel and wait for them all to finish
It is quite easy to iterate through each item in a list and wait for the result. All you have to do is use Parallel.ForEach( »
Easy and Simple way to start a new task in C#
I recently look for an easy way to start a new task in C#. Many of the examples that I found required several lines of code. »
C# - Thread.Sleep(1); takes more than 1 milisecond - around 16ms
I recently had to hunt down a bug. We were experiencing a piece of code running very slowly. The executed code should take way less than »