Win32多线程的创建方法主要有:

1. CreateThread()

2. _beginthread()&&_beginthreadex()

3. AfxBeginThread()

4. CWinThread类

一、简介

CreateThread: Win32提供的创建线程的最基础的API，用于在主线程上创建一个线程。返回一个HANDLE句柄（内核对象）。在内核对象使用完毕后，一般需要关闭，使用CloseHandle()函数。

_beginthread()&&_beginthreadex():

在MSDN中可以看到一句很重要的提示，内容为“For an executable file linked with Libcmt.lib, do not call the Win32 ExitThread API; this prevents the run-time system from reclaiming allocated resources. _endthread and _endthreadex reclaim allocated thread resources and then call ExitThread.”，简单翻译就是说，对于链接Libcmt.lib的可执行程序，不要使用Win32的线程退出函数(ExitThread)，这会阻止运行时系统回收分配的资源，应该使用_endthread，它能回收分配的线程资源然后调用ExitThread。这个问题看似没有提到CreateThread()，但是其实有关，这就是经常看到有些资料上坚决的说到”不要使用CreateThread创建线程，否则会内存泄漏“的来源了。

更详细的介绍见http://wenku.baidu.com/view/adede4ec4afe04a1b071dea4.html

也就是说:尽量用_beginthread()而不是CreateThread

‍‍Windows核心编程上如此说:‍‍

These two functions were originally created to do the work of the new _beginthreadex and _endthreadex functions, respectively. However, as you can see, the _beginthread function has fewer parameters and is therefore more limited than the full-featured _beginthreadex function. For example, if you use _beginthread, you cannot create the new thread with security attributes, you cannot create the thread suspended, and you cannot obtain the thread's ID value. The _endthread function has a similar story: it takes no parameters, which means that the thread's exit code is hardcoded to 0.

_endthread还有个问题:

DWORD dwExitCode;
HANDLE hThread = _beginthread(...);
GetExitCodeThread(hThread, &dwExitCode);
CloseHandle(hThread);

The newly created thread might execute, return, and terminate before the first thread can call GetExitCodeThread. If this happens, the value in hThread will be invalid because _endthread has closed the new thread's handle. Needless to say, the call to CloseHandle will also fail for the same reason.

简单翻译为: 在调用GetExitCodeThread之前，可能新创建的线程已经执行，返回并终止了，这个时候，hThread将无效，_endthread已经关掉了线程句柄。

_beginthreadex > _beginthread > CreateThread

AfxBeginThread:这是MFC中的Afx系列函数，一个在MFC中创建线程的全局函数。

封装了_beginthreadex，因此，MFC程序，尽量用该函数。

CWinThread:UI线程，能接收消息，需要调用AfxBeginThread创建线程。

AfxBeginThread(RUNTIME_CLASS(MyThread))

二、部分参数介绍

dwStackSize：线程堆栈大小，使用0采用默认设置，默认为1024K，所以默认只能创建不到2048个线程(2G内存).windows会根据需要动态增加堆栈大小。

lpThreadAttributes：线程属性。

lpStartAddress：指向线程函数的指针。

lpParameter：向线程函数传递的参数。

dwCreationFlags：线程标志，CREATE_SUSPENDED表示创建一个挂起的线程，0表示创建后立即激活线程。

lpThreadId，先线程的ID（输出参数）