What should my thread signature look like if I want to return a String?

[chance]

I want my thread method to return a String. However, the compiler is
saying that the best overloaded method match for
System.Threading.Thread has some invalid arguments. Not sure what I
need to change here.

public String generateNOV(string xmlParms)
{
Thread novThread = new Thread(delegate()

tia,
chance.

 

[james]

I want my thread method to return a String. However, the compiler is
saying that the best overloaded method match for
System.Threading.Thread has some invalid arguments. Not sure what I
need to change here.

public String generateNOV(string xmlParms)
{
Thread novThread = new Thread(delegate()

tia,
chance.

The delegate needs to follow ParameterizedThreadStart's signature
which is void func(object state);

 

[Peter Duniho]

I want my thread method to return a String.

A .NET Thread cannot "return a string", or any value for that matter.

If you want a thread to do some processing and emit a string, you need to
define some mechanism by which the string is explicitly set somewhere else
and then can be retrieved by whatever other thread wants to use the string.

Pete

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,


A thread cannot have a return value.

You have to store the value in a variable accesible from both the creator
and the thread.
The creator should not be able to access it until the thread had set the
value in the variable though.