Overview
As we've already mentioned in this book, Mono and .NET provide a rich set of classes. Some of these classes are essential for dealing with threads. The following list provides an overview of the most important components:
Monitor: Offers mechanisms to manage the access to objects.
ReaderWriterLock: Implements access to objects. Many objects can read concurrently, but just one instance is allowed to perform write operations.
RegisteredWaitHandle: Contains a handle for RegisterWaitForSingleObject.
Thread: Manages and creates a thread.
ThreadPool: Contains highly developed mechanisms for managing a set of threads.
Timer: Enables you to execute threads in certain intervals.
WaitHandle: Encapsulates system-specific objects that are waiting ...
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