CountdownEvent class

9 Jun 2009 1 mins .NET, Multithreading/Parallelism/Asynchronous/Concurrency

Today, while just randomly walking thru MSDN documentation I found new CountdownEvent class. It’s nothing ultra special. You can write similar class yourself in a couple of hours. But it’s great that you don’t have to. And with all the new stuff, like Task object, writing the multi-threaded apps is more easier than before (but sometimes it’s neat to just write some algorithm/problem using only thread and critical sections).

Jiří Činčura is .NET, C# and Firebird expert. He focuses on data and business layers, language constructs, parallelism, databases and performance. For almost two decades he contributes to open-source, i.e. FirebirdClient. He works as a senior software engineer for Microsoft. Frequent speaker and blogger at www.tabsoverspaces.com.