Rams On It – .NET

There is a lot of information on the concurrent primitives and concepts exposed by the .NET Framework 3.5 available on MSDN, blogs, and other websites. The goal of this post is to distill the information into an easy-to-digest high-level summary: what are the different pieces, where they differ and how they relate. If you want to know the difference between a Thread and a BackgroundWorker, or what is the point of interlocked operations, you are reading the right article. Read more.