Difference between background thread and foreground thread

[Ioannis Vranos]

In .NET, what happens when a background thread and a foreground thread
have the same priority (e.g. Normal). Do they share the same processor time?

 

[Jochen Kalmbach]

Hi Ioannis Vranos,

In .NET, what happens when a background thread and a foreground thread
have the same priority (e.g. Normal). Do they share the same processor
time?

Yes.
The difference between background and foreground thread is only the fact
that if the app terminates, any background thread will also be terminated.
Foreground threads must terminate itself before the app can terminate.


See: Foreground and Background Threads
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconthreadlevels.asp

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