multithreading-with-c-and-win32.md

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Multithreading with C and Win32

Microsoft Visual C++ provides support for creating multithread applications. You should consider using more than one thread if your application needs to perform expensive operations that would cause the user-interface to become unresponsive.

With Visual C++, there are two ways to program with multiple threads: use the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) library or the C run-time library and the Win32 API. For information about creating multithread applications with MFC, see Multithreading with C++ and MFC after reading the following topics about multithreading in C.

These topics explain the features in Visual C++ that support the creation of multithread programs.

What do you want to know more about?

• What multithreading is about

• Library support for multithreading

• Include files for multithreading

• C Run-Time library functions for thread control

• Sample multithread program in C

• Writing a Multithread Win32 Program

• Compiling and linking multithread programs

• Avoiding problem areas with multithread programs

• Thread local storage (TLS)

See Also

Multithreading Support for Older Code (Visual C++)