Multiple Threads Within the IDE

Santi <__***********@ ibcentre.es> wrote:

A thread ends when it exists the function that it is executing. If the
thread performs a continuos loop you usually use a boolean to control the
execution, something like:

bool run;

void Foo()
{
while( run )
{
// perform whatever
}
}

So what I do to stop and end the thread in a clean way is:

run = false;

this makes the executuion flow to exit the function and end the thread.

Note that as written, this isn't thread-safe. Either run should be made
volatile, or you should put a lock round both the reading and writing
of it.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/t...latility.shtml

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Agreed. It's probably better to just use "true" instead of a variable, and
then catch the Interrupted exception (if you want a thread that runs
continuously and only quits when the app quits - as I was suggesting):

try
{
while( true )
{
// perform whatever
}
}
catch (ThreadInterrup tedException)
{
// Perform cleanup - then return
return;
}