Threading in Windows Forms

[sekarm]

Dear All,
Happy to see you all again. I got some useful information from this forum. thats why i am asking. Please give me the valuable information.

I have to run 4 threads parallely in windows form. These Threads to be run on some intervals, so i put in While Loop that is,

While(IsAvailable) 
{
Thread.Start();
Thread.Sleep(Timespan.FromSeconds(4));
}

The Variable Isavailable set as = true;

All thread are run in same way. If I want to Exit the application i just reset the variable in While Loop IsAvailable = false. and then abort the threads. In above 4 threads 2 thread functions are complicated so thats 2 threads are in running stage the application does not to be closed. After completion of 2 threads the application will be closed. so what i have to do?
And one more question is any other way to wait the thread. if i have put sleep mode its wastes the cpu time. Give your valuable Solution..

Thanks in Advance,
Sekar.

[Frinavale]

Dear All,
Happy to see you all again. I got some useful information from this forum. thats why i am asking. Please give me the valuable information.

I have to run 4 threads parallely in windows form. These Threads to be run on some intervals, so i put in While Loop that is,

While(IsAvailable) 
{
Thread.Start();
Thread.Sleep(Timespan.FromSeconds(4));
}

The Variable Isavailable set as = true;

All thread are run in same way. If I want to Exit the application i just reset the variable in While Loop IsAvailable = false. and then abort the threads. In above 4 threads 2 thread functions are complicated so thats 2 threads are in running stage the application does not to be closed. After completion of 2 threads the application will be closed. so what i have to do?
And one more question is any other way to wait the thread. if i have put sleep mode its wastes the cpu time. Give your valuable Solution..

Thanks in Advance,
Sekar.

Hi Sekar,

I haven't use threads since school...but I did a bit of research on the problem for you and did find some useful things on MSDN that may help you out.

• General Information on Threads and Threading
• The ThreadPool Class
• System.Threading.Thread Class Members

According to the Thread Members listed (in the last link) it doesn't look like there is a wait function that does what you'd like it to do. There is a SpinWait function that lets you set the number of iterations the thread should wait for though...

Be sure to check out the information on thread pools. I think this will help you out as well.

Cheers!
-Frinny

[Plater]

If you want your "threads" to only run at a given interval, take a look at the Timer object.

There are a few:
System.Threading.Timer
System.Windows.Forms.Timer
System.Timers.Timer

MSDN has pretty good help on them.

[OwfAdmin]

Use this safe abortable thread class publish on MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...03/NETMatters/

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Dear All,
Happy to see you all again. I got some useful information from this forum. thats why i am asking. Please give me the valuable information.

I have to run 4 threads parallely in windows form. These Threads to be run on some intervals, so i put in While Loop that is,

While(IsAvailable) 
{
Thread.Start();
Thread.Sleep(Timespan.FromSeconds(4));
}

The Variable Isavailable set as = true;

All thread are run in same way. If I want to Exit the application i just reset the variable in While Loop IsAvailable = false. and then abort the threads. In above 4 threads 2 thread functions are complicated so thats 2 threads are in running stage the application does not to be closed. After completion of 2 threads the application will be closed. so what i have to do?
And one more question is any other way to wait the thread. if i have put sleep mode its wastes the cpu time. Give your valuable Solution..

Thanks in Advance,
Sekar.