Question

Consider the below program

myThread = new Thread(
                        new ThreadStart(
                            delegate
                            {
                                Method1();
                                Method2();
                            }
                            )
                            );

Is it that 2 threads are getting called parallely(multitasking) or a single thread is calling the methods sequentially?

Answer 1

That’s a single thread.

Method2() won’t be called before Method1() ends.

If you want Method1() and Method2() to be each in a separate thread you can do:

myThread1 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Method1));
myThread2 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Method2));

and start them:

myThread1.Start();
myThread2.Start();

now both can be running concurrently.

Useful resources:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa645740(VS.71).aspx
• http://www.albahari.com/threading/