Sometimes we need to pause the main thread statements until the other thread completes. (Suppose if other thread produces/modifies the data to be used by main thread. If we do not pause the main thread statements in such case then main thread statements may use the data which is not modified/changed yet and an exception […]

In its simplest form, deadlock occurs when each of two (minimun two) threads try to acquire a lock on a resource already locked by another. E.g: Take example of two threads 1. thread 1 2. Thread 2 And two resources 1. Resource 1 2. Resource 2 Thread 1 locked on Resources 1 and tries to […]

Many of us may be familiar with the restriction against modifying a Control from any thread other than the one in which it was created, if we do so we get a CrossThreadOpeartionException. Instead, an event generated on another thread must be marshaled to the Control’s thread using its (or the Form that it belongs […]

This tip is targeted for a specific task in vb.net. The problem, not actually a problem but the task is to edit the content in the RichTextBox of our Windows application through Wordpad and just update our control with that formatted text. Well, the simple way to do this job is 1. Open  the Editor […]