Killing off a thread..

[Mantorok]

Hi all

I have an app that runs report classes, each report is run in a new thread,
what I want is the ability to be able to kill of a thread that is running.

How is this best achieved?

Thanks
Kev

 

[Vadym Stetsyak]

Hello, Mantorok!

M> I have an app that runs report classes, each report is run in a new
M> thread,
M> what I want is the ability to be able to kill of a thread that is
M> running.

M> How is this best achieved?

Have a look at the following article
( http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/03/NETMatters/ )
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Regards, Vadym Stetsyak
www: http://vadmyst.blogspot.com

 

[Chris Mullins]

I have an app that runs report classes, each report is run in a new
thread, what I want is the ability to be able to kill of a thread that is
running.

How is this best achieved?

You really can't kill threads - doing will have all sorts of ugly results.

A better approach is to have an event of some sort, usually a
ManualResetEvent, called "_shouldShutdown". Have your worker threads poll
this event periodically, and if the event is set then have the thread exit.