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Whats wrong with thread.abort, asks a beginner....

I have a thread in my Windows app which uses Net.WebClient to post data to a
web form and receive the resultant web page in a string.

This process can take some time, and this is why I chose to use a secondary
thread to stop the user interface freezing. However, I am not sure how I am
supposed to cancel the thread should the user click the cancel button (or
try to close the application whilst the thread is running).

Is it not advisable to use thread.abort ? If not, how would I go about
telling a thread, whose 99 per cent of processing time is carrying out that
one 'x = y.UploadValues( FormUrl, fields)' command, to stop running when it's
safe to?

(I have seen a few examples of how to stop threads, but I am confused as to
which method is advisable in this case.)

TIA
Jan 23 '06 #1
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