I want to listen for incoming socket connections on a thread. When I call MySocket.BeginAccept or MySocket.Accept, I cannot figure out how to stop the thread. Is there no way to stop the Socket Accept?

Define a public variabl mbol_Shutdown. Next when you are ready to shut the
socket down, assign the global mbol_Shutdown variable to True and signal the
System.Threading.ManualResetEvent "mobj_ListenResetEvent"
(mobj_ListenResetEvent.Set()). This should allow you to break out of the
loop.

While True
mobj_ListenResetEvent.Reset()
mobj_Socket.BeginAccept(New AsyncCallback(AddressOf
AcceptCallback), mobj_Socket)
mobj_ListenResetEvent.WaitOne()
If mbol_Shutdown then Exit While
End While

'clean up

"Dennis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I want to listen for incoming socket connections on a thread. When I call
MySocket.BeginAccept or MySocket.Accept, I cannot figure out how to stop the
thread. Is there no way to stop the Socket Accept?

Bryan Martin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Define a public variabl mbol_Shutdown. Next when you are ready to shut the
> socket down, assign the global mbol_Shutdown variable to True and signal the
> System.Threading.ManualResetEvent "mobj_ListenResetEvent"
> (mobj_ListenResetEvent.Set()). This should allow you to break out of the
> loop.
>
> While True
> mobj_ListenResetEvent.Reset()
> mobj_Socket.BeginAccept(New AsyncCallback(AddressOf
> AcceptCallback), mobj_Socket)
> mobj_ListenResetEvent.WaitOne()
> If mbol_Shutdown then Exit While
> End While
>
> 'clean up

Slightly cleaner would be to make the while construct *itself* test the
flag. However, you should also synchronize access to the flag to make
sure you don't just get a cached version each iteration. You could do
that by making the flag volatile, or by setting/reading a property
which contains a lock.

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