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One of Silverlight’s least expected surprises is its support for multithreading—the fine art of executing more than one piece of code at the same time. It’s a key part of the full. NET Framework and a commonly used feature in rich client applications built with WPF and Windows Forms. However, multithreading hasn’t appeared in the toolkit of most browser-based developers, and it’s notably absent from both JavaScript and Flash.
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MacDonald, M. (2012). Multithreading. In: Pro Silverlight 5 in C#. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3480-7_16
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