Introduction and Concepts
C# supports parallel execution of code through multithreading. A thread is an independent execution path, able to run simultaneously with other threads.
A C# client program (Console, WPF, or Windows Forms) starts in a single thread created automatically by the CLR and operating system (the “main” thread), and is made multithreaded by creating additional threads. Here’s a simple example and its output:
All examples assume the following namespaces are imported:
using System; using System.Threading;