Beginners threading in C#

Can you recommend a good series of articles or preferably a book on how to get started with threading in general and in C# in particular?
I am primarily looking for the use of threads in console applications and in ASP.Net apps.

I understand only the very basics of threads and know that “here be dragons”, so want to get a good grounding in it before I start using them.

Things I am curious about are things like the concept of having a threadpool, how you manage the size of it, how you choose for things to be queued until a thread is available vs forcing a new thread to start etc.
Also, I understand that IIS has lots of built-in thread handling, so anything that explains how to work with threads in ASP.Net under IIS and how it differs from threading in a console C# applicaion is interesting.

My intended usage includes things like;

• The user does something on the ASP.Net page that causes my server-side code to need to connect to another system and carry out lengthy operations, so I want to return control to the user quickly by firing that action to another thread. The user can keep watching progress through AJAX or simply move away – the web is stateless after all 🙂
• Use of Fire and Forget patterns (lots of sample code out there, I want to understand more about how they work)

Thanks

Answers:

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Method 1

As well as my own articles linked by Andrew, Joe Albahari has another tutorial.

If you want a really thorough examination, read Joe Duffy’s Concurrent Programming in Windows.

Method 2

Here is a good set of articles by our very own Jon Skeet:

http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/threads/

Method 3

I found this free ebook by Joseph Albahari really useful

Method 4

I would recommend the series by Joseph Albahari available here:

http://www.albahari.com/threading/

It’s concise and very readable.

Method 5

I’d recommend the following

Great MSDN Article

Method 6

Get “CLR Via C#” by Jeff Richter. Its the best .Net book I have ever read and has extensive information on threading.

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