Howard,
I would like to know what thread my form is running on in a Managed C++
Windows Form Application
I tried
using namespace System::Diagnostics;
using namespace System::Threading;
and including the code
Debug::WriteLine(Thread::CurrentThread->Name->ToString());
in my form constructor
This compiles but results in a Null Reference exception
First of all, there's no need to call ToString(), the Name property is
already a string.
Second of all, it's perfectly normal for a thread to have no name (indeed it
probably won't unless you set it yourself). Now, in Win32, one would usually
identify the thread by it's thread id. However, in managed code, you don't
normally would get that since theoretically, managed threads don't need to
map one-to-one to the underlying OS threads (you can still call the Win32
GetCurrentThreadId() api). If all you want to do is distinguish one managed
thread from another, you can use it's hashcode.
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Tomas Restrepo
to****@mvps.org 
