hi.
i have main thread , and 2 others thread (t1 ,t2 for example)

how can i call from the main thread, to tell t1 to exit his thread ?
(calling application.exitthread from main thread, in method of class created
on t1 ,will call exitthread to the main thread)

what is the simple way to do that ?

There is a couple of ways you can handle this.

One you can you call t1.Abort() or t2.Abort() and the thread will exit.
This is a pretty abrupt shutdown of the thread and may leave some of the
references the thread has in an undefined state.

The other option is to have some property that the helper thread checks and
when set to true by the main thread the helper thread exits.

In the main thread do the following:

MyWorkerThread myWorker = new MyWorkerThread()
Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(myWorker.DoSomeWork));
t.Start();

/*
DO SOME STUFF
*/

myWorker.ExitThread = true;
/* The thread should now exit on the next iteration */


public class MyWorkerThread
{
public bool ExitThread = false;

public void DoSomeWork()
{
while(true) {
if(ExitThread) {
return;
}
/* DO SOME WORK HERE */
}
}
}

Thanks,

Ryan Byington [MS]

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>hi.
>i have main thread , and 2 others thread (t1 ,t2 for example)
>
>how can i call from the main thread, to tell t1 to exit his thread ?
>(calling application.exitthread from main thread, in method of class
created
>on t1 ,will call exitthread to the main thread)
>
>what is the simple way to do that ?
>
>
>