Hello all,
does anyone know a good tutorial on working with (programming) threads in Visusal Studio 2005? Not MFC related, just native C++ (no .NET)
Thanks
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Win32 Multithreaded Programming
http://www.amazon.com/Win32-Multithreaded-Programming-Aaron-Cohen/dp/1565922964
Also try some of the free undergraduate podcasts on operating systems. You can find theoretical discussions on locking, multithreading, etc. (the one I know of is from Berkeley and is based on JAva, but still relevant)
Tim
2008-11-10 20:13:30
That book seems to be out of print.
Jonke
2008-11-10 20:15:12
oops. I have it and like it. Sorry about the "bad" link
Tim
2008-11-10 20:16:45
Apparently one can still purchase it through amazon though.
Tim
2008-11-10 20:18:01
I love that book myself, and have used their C++ wrappers in a number of programs in the past.
crashmstr
2008-11-10 20:20:37
Ok, I think there are some small examples in the http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Programming-Addison-Wesley-Microsoft-Technology/dp/0321256190/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b as well. Not in any c++ but just win32 api calls from C.
Jonke
2008-11-10 20:23:13
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A:
Try one of these articles on codeproject.com:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/threads/threadobject.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/winsdk/Win32_Event_Handling.aspx
kenny
2008-11-10 20:19:36
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A:
Instead of using Win32 threads directly, I'd consider using a thread wrapper such as Boost threads. These are cross platform so porting your application later will be easier.
Tom Leys
2008-11-10 20:39:56
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You may take a look at https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/openMP/. This doesn't concern all concepts of multithreading in VC++, but OpenMP only, which VC++ supports. OpenMP is easy to use in some simple cases of multithreading, for instance independent iterations in loop, independent blocks of code which can be executed concurrently. Although OpenMP is not so flexible in comparison with other approaches but it is very easy to use.
To enable OpenMP you need to switch it on in the project properties "C/C++/Language/OpenMP Support"
sergdev
2008-11-10 20:59:59
A big advantage of systems like OpenMp is that it is much easier to create a large number of threads to do your work, making your application scale to the multi-cores of the future.
Tom Leys
2008-11-11 20:47:39