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How do I stop a thread?

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Last Update: June 08, 2006 Asked by: Srikanth

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Submitted by: dotnetrocks

thread can be stopped temporarily by thread.suspend and then recovered by thread.resume. Also thread.abort stops the thread completely and cannot be recovred unless created a new one.

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chintan.desai

October 20, 2005 02:16:37

krishnasharana

RE: How do I stop a thread?

.NET allows to call System.Windows.Forms.Control functions only from thread where control was created. To run them from other thread we need to use Control.Invoke (synchronous call) or Control.BeginInvoke (asynchronous call) functions. For task like showing database records we need Invoke. To implement this :Delegate type for calling form function delegate instance and function called using this delegate Invoke call from worker thread. Next problem is to stop worker thread correctly. Steps to do this:Set event Stop Thread Wait for event Thread is stopped While waiting for event process messages using Application.DoEvents function. This prevents deadlock because worker thread makes Invoke calls which are processed in main thread. Thread function checks in every iteration whether Stop Thread event is set. If event is set function makes clean-up operations sets event Thread is stopped and returns.

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January 13, 2006 08:34:17

sabir

RE: How do I stop a thread?

treadname.abort ''''' to stop the thread and treadname.stop '''' t

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June 07, 2006 15:46:38

dotnetrocks

RE: How do I stop a thread?

thread can be stopped temporarily by thread.suspend and then recovered by thread.resume. Also thread.abort stops the thread completely and cannot be recovred unless created a new one.

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