Who enjoys using an app that is really slow?

Edit

What can be defined as a path of execution within an executable application?

Edit

Spawning additional threads will not necessarily make applications faster on what type of machines?

Edit

What namespace released with .NET 1.0 offers one approach to building multithreaded applications?

Edit

When you write code that creates a new thread, can you guarantee that the thread executes immediately?

Edit

What namespace in .NET provides types that enable the direct construction of multithreaded apps?

Edit

What type in System.Threading represents a thread that executes within the .NET runtime and can be used to spawn additional threads in the originating AppDomain?

Edit

What type in System.Threading provides a mechanism for executing a method at specified intervals?

Edit

What type in System.Threading allows you to limit the number of threads that can access a resource concurrently?

Edit

What most primitive type in System.Threading represents an object-oriented wrapper around a given path of execution within an AppDomain?

Edit

What instance-level member of System.Threading.Thread returns a bool that indicates if the thread has been started (and has not yet terminated or aborted)?

Edit

What instance-level member of System.Threading.Thread gets or sets a value that indicates whether the thread is a background thread?

Edit

What instance-level member of System.Threading.Thread instructs the .NET runtime to terminate the thread as soon as possible?

Edit

What is a good property to set on a System.Threading.Thread instance that will greatly simplify your debugging endeavors?

Edit

What instance-level member of System.Threading.Thread instructs the .NET runtime to start the thread as soon as possible?

Edit

What will happen if you decorate a method with the async keyword but that method does not have an internal await method call?

Edit

What keywords can you use in .NET that will make the compiler generate a good deal of threading code on your behalf?

Edit

What static method of System.Threading.Thread suspends the current thread for a specified time?

Edit

What type in System.Threading is a delegate type used in conjunction with Timer?

Edit

What type in System.Threading allows you to interact with the .NET runtime-maintained thread pool within a given process?

Edit

What are threads that can prevent the current app from terminating?

Edit

What are threads that are viewed by the .NET runtime as expendable paths of execution that can be ignored at any point in time?

Edit

The .NET runtime will not shut down an app until all of what kind of thread have ended?

Edit

What are sometimes called daemon threads?

Edit

What issue can be described as the possibility of different threads changing the value of any shared data?

Edit

What type and delegate can you use in .NET when you need a function to be called every so often by the app (especially for noncritical background tasks like checking for new emails)?

Edit

The types of what namespace are collectively referred to as the Task Parallel Library?

Edit

What newer approach to multithreaded app development (newer than System.Threading) did Microsoft introduce with .NET 4.0?

Edit

What C# keyword qualifies that a method, lambda expression, or anonymous method should be called in an asynchronous manner automatically?

Edit

What can you use to mark a method with that will cause the .NET Core runtime to create a new thread of execution to handle the task at hand?

Edit

What C# keyword makes the current thread be paused when an asynchronous method is called?

Edit

What type of method call do you have if you have a method decorated with the async keyword and it contains no internal await?

Edit

If you have a Main() method in Program.cs that returns an int, and you want to decorate Main() with async, what will the new return type be?

Edit

What two keywords were added in .NET 4.5 that further simplified the process of writing asynchronous code?

Edit

What type does System.Threading provide to interact with the runtime thread pool?

Edit