March 2008 - Posts

• ThreadPool bug in CLR 2.0 SP1

  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 Read More... Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 8:13 AM by ericeil | 3 Comments Filed under: Managed, ThreadPool

• When should you call RegisteredWaitHandle.Unregister?

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:05 PM by ericeil | 0 Comments Filed under: Managed, ThreadPool