Multithreaded Programs: Overview

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Using the Win32 API or MFC, you can create programs for Windows 95 and Windows NT that use multiple threads of execution to achieve concurrency. You might, for example, place the code for a background process (such as printing or spreadsheet calculations) in a separate thread. MFC supplies classes for threads and for synchronizing multiple threads that share resources.

What do you want to know more about?

• Multithreading
  
  
• Thread-safe classes
  
  
• Multithreaded programming using MFC
  
  
• Multithreaded programming using only the Win32 API
  
  
• Semaphores, mutexes, and critical sections for thread synchronization
  
  
• Thread-local storage issues
  
  
• Worker threads
  
  
• User-interface threads
  
  
• Starting a thread
  
  
• Terminating a thread
  
  
• Accessing objects from multiple threads
  
  
• Accessing MFC objects from non-MFC threads
  
  
• Windows handle maps in threads
  
  
• Communicating between threads

See Also   CWinThread, CSyncObject, CSemaphore, CMutex, CCriticalSection, CEvent, CMultiLock, CSingleLock