http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2008/07/21/managed-threadpool-vs-win32-threadpool-pre-vista.aspxThe following is a conversation between me and a CLR dev. The conversation is very informative so I quote it here. From: Sent: To: Subject: RE: ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem There might be some confusion here around the meaning of the term "I/O Thread."en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2008/07/21/managed-threadpool-vs-win32-threadpool-pre-vista.aspx#8761748Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:09:38 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8761748a-foton &raquo; Managed ThreadPool vs Win32 ThreadPool (pre-Vista)<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blog.a-foton.ru/2008/07/managed-threadpool-vs-win32-threadpool-pre-vista/">http://blog.a-foton.ru/2008/07/managed-threadpool-vs-win32-threadpool-pre-vista/</a></p> http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2008/07/21/managed-threadpool-vs-win32-threadpool-pre-vista.aspx#8767125Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:01:19 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8767125Sam Gentile The World According to MSCOREE<p>ASP.NET/Silverlight First Preview for new Ajax features , ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 went live on CodePlex Via</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2008/07/21/managed-threadpool-vs-win32-threadpool-pre-vista.aspx#8768071Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:51:30 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8768071gOODiDEA<p>DebugManagedThreadPoolvsWin32ThreadPool(pre-Vista)WebDOMDocumentFragments-document.crea...</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2008/07/21/managed-threadpool-vs-win32-threadpool-pre-vista.aspx#8768079Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:53:32 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8768079gOODiDEA.NET<p>Debug Managed ThreadPool vs Win32 ThreadPool (pre-Vista) Web DOM DocumentFragments - document.createDocumentFragment</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2008/07/21/managed-threadpool-vs-win32-threadpool-pre-vista.aspx#9166255Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:24:56 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9166255Sam Gentile's Blog<p>ASP.NET/Silverlight First Preview for new Ajax features , ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 went live on CodePlex Via Brad Abrams , the updating of the very cool ASP.NET Ajax Portal application, DropThings Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2008 -- #332 IronRuby/DLR/IronPython</p>