You can have a huge impact on customer satisfaction by improving your .NET application's perceived performance—that is, users' perception of the application's performance. You can have the fastest box ...

A thread is the smallest unit of execution within a process. Multithreading is the ability to have multiple threads in memory at a given time and switch among them to handle multiple operations at the ...

(. NET also provides you with advanced methods for controlling which threads run under which CPUs, as well as access to the thread pool itself, but these are more advanced topics best discussed later.