.NET Multithreading [Paperback]

Alan Dennis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2003

With an understanding of the .NET framework, stable and robust multithreaded applications can be developed with minimal effort. Covering the topics related to multithreaded development, this book not only focuses on how a task is performed but also on the more important question of why these tasks are performed. The strengths and weaknesses of each approach to multithreading are analyzed so that programmers and developers can choose the appropriate approach based on their particular constraints. Complete coverage of multithreading development using the .NET framework in both Visual Basic .NET and C# is provided in addition to detailed analyses of threads, delegates, asynchronous execution, threadpools, and locks.

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About the Author

Dr. Alan Dennis holds the John T. Chambers Chair of Internet Systems in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Dr. Dennis has won numerous awards for teaching data communications and networking and for his research on collaboration and the Internet. He is an Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly and serves as the Executive Editor for MIS Quarterly Executive. He received his Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Arizona, his MBA from Queen's University in Ontario, and his Bachelor of Computer Science from Acadia University in Nova Scotia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Manning Publications (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1930110545
• ISBN-13: 978-1930110540
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 7.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,175,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #12 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Cross-platform Development

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good effort...., August 14, 2004

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developer-exp "developer-exp" (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: .NET Multithreading (Paperback)

While I applaud the author for being the only one (that I know of) to write a book on .NET multithreading, this book has a few shortcomings. Namely, the book doesn't provide complete source for all the samples in both C# and VB, which forces the reader to understand BOTH languages, and the structure of the material does not really provide enough depth in some areas such as GUI multithreading. The book does provide useful information though.

BT

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pretty bad, July 6, 2004

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Dana Robinson (Champaign, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: .NET Multithreading (Paperback)

This book is just plain bad.

The source code is awful. Not only is it poorly formatted, sometimes incorrect and in an annoying mix of C# and VB.NET, but the examples are often horribly incomplete. I usually read programming books by skimming the source and text at the same time but I can't do that in .NET Multithreading because many of the examples are just snippets and are lacking in important information such as types. I was often forced to either slog through the text or hit MSDN to figure out what was going on.

The other reviewers' comments on the lack of depth are right on the mark. You'll get enough information to write trivial little applications, but that's about it. To its credit, the book does do a decent job of warning you about multithreading problems, though I think it should do a better job of instilling a healthy sense of fear in threading newbies.

If you really want to understand multithreading, I'd recommend reading Tannenbaum's OS book for the basics, followed by the MSDN literature for .NET specifics. It also helps to read a book on Win32 multithreading so you can understand what's going on underneath the .NET layer. You should also read Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows.

I probably would not buy this book again.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good coverage of topics - plenty of mistakes, April 19, 2003

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Bruce S. Gruenbaum (Arcadia, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: .NET Multithreading (Paperback)

I bought this book to get a clear picture of what .NET has in terms of thread support. This book gives you that. It is reasonably well written, but the editors have failed badly because there are numerous typographical mistakes and inconsistencies between the text and the quoted code examples.

Alan succeeds in getting the ideas across, but unfortunately the examples that can be downloaded from the web site are tough to find because the directory structure of the downloaded code does not correctly match the sections in the text that it is supposed to match to.

I'd definitely still recommend getting the book. It should be mandatory reading for anyone switching to .NET programming, especially VB people who typically are not experienced with real enterprise application development.