End Google Ads 201810 - BS.net 01 --> Blocking operations are bad news for concurrency. You need a way for the thread pool to wait on your behalf without affecting its concurrency limits. It can then queue a callback once the resource is available or the time has elapsed. Along with work objects, the thread pool API provides a number of other callback-generating objects. Here, Kenny Kerr shows how to use wait objects.



MSDN Magazine November 2011