How do you wait on a thread to finish without using Join?

[Jim H]

I need to make sure a worker thread has completed before I can let my app
close. In System.Threading.Thread there is Join(). That isn't supported by
the cf. How do I know when it's safe to close my app? Is there some kind
of wait I can perform on the thread object?

Thanks,
jim

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

Set a flag (or an event ) before exiting the thread and wait on it in the
main thread before exiting the app

 

[Jim H]

Thanks again, that's what I thought. I created an event I can wait on.

jim

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

The other option is the use the ThreadEx from the OpenNETCF SDF, which
*does* support Join (as well as Suspend, Resume and Abort).

www.opennetcf.org/sdf

-Chris

 

[Jim H]

Is the OpenNETCF code supported on the desktop? Can I use dlls with
OpenNETCF code in desktop apps?

I checked looked around on the site but didn't see anything one way or the
other.

Jim

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

That depends, of course, on whether you are using classes that P/Invoke to
WinCE-only APIs...

Paul T.