The Background Worker is the new preferred way from what I was reading. With respect to thread dispatch on individual processor cores, you should be able see processor demand curves in perfmon?
I have a multi-threaded c# application I’ve been hacking on for several months, and several things I have noticed in VS 2010 is that debugging is definitely not linear. In fact, the only way I have been able to effectively debug is with log statements. I had to do use lock on a readonly object to single thread through the logger, but it seems to be effective, more or less. At least I’ve been able to generate the application, thank goodness...
If the drain is large enough, I suppose.
I have a multi-threaded c# application Ive been hacking on for several months, and several things I have noticed in VS 2010 is that debugging is definitely not linear. In fact, the only way I have been able to effectively debug is with log statements. I had to do use lock on a readonly object to single thread through the logger, but it seems to be effective, more or less. At least Ive been able to generate the application, thank goodness...
There are a series of pretty good tips on debugging MT apps: