Does a .NET service exhibit thread agility?

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Related to questions like this and this about ASP.NET thread agility: Can a windows service written in C# exhibit the same thread agility behavior seen in ASP.NET? Or is thread agility more a feature of IIS than .NET?

Really what I'm after is can I be sure that thread management within a windows service is entirely up to the service itself? Or can .NET hop threads within a long-running service if it chooses to do so?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 22 '15 at 19:04

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No. A windows service is not managed by the IIS pipeline and any threads that are created must be created by the service code itself.

answered May 22 '15 at 19:04

John Wu

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OK, so thread agility is more a feature of IIS than the .NET framework. That's what I wanted to know! – sbrown May 22 '15 at 19:37

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 22 '15 at 19:05

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Thread agility is IIS specific. Windows service will not have that behaviour.

answered May 22 '15 at 19:05

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 22 '15 at 19:09

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Thread agility is a property of how the thread pool mechanism interacts with asynchronous I/O. You can implement a similar mechanism yourself, but it isn't an automatic behavior.

answered May 22 '15 at 19:09

Gabe

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Does a .NET service exhibit thread agility?

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