Shortly after the release of CLR 2.0 SP1 (a.k.a. Orcas or .NET 3.5), several customers noticed some very odd behavior in the ThreadPool. The ThreadPool is supposed to create threads as fast as possible, up to the current setting for MinThreads - but it...

The managed ThreadPool provides a way to asynchronously wait for WaitHandles, via ThreadPool.RegisterWaitForSingleObject. This method returns a new instance of RegisteredWaitHandle, which has a single method: Unregister. It's obvious from the name that...