Multithreading Topics

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Visual C++ allows you to have multiple concurrent threads of execution running simultaneously. With multithreading, you can spin off background tasks, manage simultaneous streams of input, manage a user interface, and much more. This family of articles covers two ways to use multiple threads:

• Using C and the Win32 API
  
  
• Using C++ and MFC

What do you want to know more about?

• What multithreading is all about
  
  
• Win32 support for multithreading
  
  
• MFC support for multithreading
  
  
• Multithreading issues and problem areas
  
  
• Sample Win32 multithreading code
  
  
• Sample MFC multithreading code
  
  
• Sharing resources among threads
  
  
• Thread local storage
  
  
• Synchronizing threads that use shared resources
  
  
• Threads with a user interface
  
  
• Worker threads for background processing
  
  
• Programming tips for MFC multithreaded programming