What is Multithreading in .NET with example?

Multithreading in .NET:

Multi-threading is a widely used technique to improve the performance of our applications, we do it by dividing the application into little threads and executing them simultaneously. Although multi-threading is tough work to do and .NET is quite easy rather to other programming languages. [c]System.Threading[/c] namespace provides the facility of multithreading.

Advantages of Multithreading:

  • We can improve the performance of multithreading
  • We can make the application more responsive.
  • It can utilize processors very well.
  • It can stop or pause a task at any time.

Disadvantages of Multithreading:

  • It increases the chance of deadlock.
  • It makes debugging and testing tough.