Cant Stop A Thread

VB 2003. I cant find the last thing im missing.
I click the "Run" button to run my app in VB.net and it runs.
But when i close the application, the thread does not end ( i think )
because it never ends the debuger
and i have to hit the "little square" to stop the app.

If make a shortcut to the exe and run it that way, it stays in the Windows
Task Manager and I have to kill the process.

Has anyone else run into this / work around?

My thread opens a udp port and listens for data on a port. ( but i dont
think that matters )
For the example I used to create this, it is:
http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/UDP_Send_Receive.asp

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Miro wrote:

>VB 2003. I cant find the last thing im missing.
I click the "Run" button to run my app in VB.net and it runs.
But when i close the application, the thread does not end ( i think )
because it never ends the debuger
and i have to hit the "little square" to stop the app.

If make a shortcut to the exe and run it that way, it stays in the
Windows
Task Manager and I have to kill the process.

Has anyone else run into this / work around?

My thread opens a udp port and listens for data on a port. ( but i dont
think that matters )
For the example I used to create this, it is:
http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/UDP_Send_Receive.asp

Actually, if your using blocking socket calls (ReceiveFrom?) then it
does matter. A call to Thread.Abort is only a request, it doesn't
guarentee that a thread will immediately exit. The problem with the
blocking socket calls is at the low level, they are actually calling
out into unmanaged code - and so the ThreadAbortException is not thrown
until the call returns (look at the docs for a more detailed
explanation). The way I usually handle this is simply close the
socket. This causes the blocking read to return, and then you can exit
the thread...

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Tom Shelton [MVP]