Question regarding multithreading?

Question

Hello All,

I want to fire three attribute queries on three different layers.These would be independent queries, that means they have their separate where clauses and do not depend on each other for the inputs.

So, I was wondering if could I use multi threading for it? That means I'll create 3 septate threads and execute queries in them.Will there be any issue for this? Has anybody done this before? Or our ArcGIS API for silverlight support multi-threading?

Any suggestions/responses would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

JoeHershman · Answer

Joe,

Thanks for the additional information.

I decided to stick to the current thread only.So, I fired my all queries one after another.That's heavy operation but it worked.

Sanjay,

Glad it worked for you.  It really is not a heavy operation because the Silverlight client application is not doing any of the work.  Take a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient.aspx.  The ExecuteAsynch methods on a Task are basically wrappers for the WebClient::OpenReadAsych method that build the Url/Query String from the parameters provided.  So all that happens on the Silverlight side is the sending of a message to the server.  All the processing is done by the ArcGIS Server process (a SOC process running on the server) and the Silverlight application just waits around for the results to be sent back.

-Joe

SanajyJadhav · Answer

Joe,

Thanks for the additional information.

I decided to stick to the current thread only.So, I fired my all queries one after another.That's heavy operation but it worked.

JoeHershman · Answer

Sanjay,

While it is certainly possible to run the queries on multiple threads as andrew points out these are asynchronous operations so you will not achieve any performance improvements by doing so.  As soon as one query launches the next will launch immediately and they will all be running on the server in a multi-threaded fashion, which is where the processing occurs.  Just create an individual method for each query with its own QueryTask object and call each method in sequence, it will be a lot simpler and will perform identical to running each on its own thread.
Good luck