Does Func.BeginInvoke use the ThreadPool?

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It uses the thread pool, definitely.

I’m blowed if I can find that documented anyway, mind you… this MSDN article indicates that any callback you specify will be executed on a thread-pool thread…

Here’s some code to confirm it – but of course that doesn’t confirm that it’s guaranteed to happen that way…

using System;
using System.Threading;

public class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Action x = () => 
            Console.WriteLine(Thread.CurrentThread.IsThreadPoolThread);

        x(); // Synchronous; prints False
        x.BeginInvoke(null, null); // On the thread-pool thread; prints True
        Thread.Sleep(500); // Let the previous call finish
    }
}

EDIT: As linked by Jeff below, this MSDN article confirms it:

If the BeginInvoke method is called,
the common language runtime (CLR)
queues the request and returns
immediately to the caller. The target
method is called asynchronously on a
thread from the thread pool.

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