Threading .NET Style
As expected, the .NET Framework also has the concept of threading that is nicely wrapped in an object-oriented and platform-neutral fashion. By encapsulating and abstracting threading, the framework exposes a logical thread. These logical threads are managed by the framework and provide additional benefits not found in a physical Win32 thread. Using .NET Threads should make the code much more portable to other CLI platforms such as WinCE, Win64, and Mono. At the time of this writing, a logical thread maps to a physical thread, but this might change in future versions of .NET.
A logical thread is capable of doing things that a native thread cannot. For example, there is no simple method for a native thread to raise an exception ...
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