Multithreading Tasks

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Multiple threads of execution allow you to perform tasks concurrently in your program.

For information about multithreading without MFC, see Multithreading with C and Win32.

What do you want to do?

Creating and Using Multiple Threads of Execution

• Create multiple threads in C and Win32
  
  
• Create a user-interface thread in MFC
  
  
• Create a worker thread in MFC
  
  
• Design a thread-safe class
  
  
• Terminate a thread
  
  
• Retrieve the exit code of a thread

Synchronizing Threads

• Use the MFC thread synchronization classes

Communicating Among Multiple Threads

• Access objects from multiple threads
  
  
• Access MFC objects from non-MFC threads
  
  
• Use Windows handles across threads
  
  
• Communicate between threads

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