Name
Thread
Synopsis
Most interaction with the
System.Threading
namespace occurs via the Thread type. This type
encapsulates most of the logic needed to control the way threads
behave.
The most commonly used static methods,
usually
referred to as thread relative statics, are
methods and properties that refer to the currently executing thread.
Sleep( ) causes the calling thread to sleep for a
specified amount of time. If for some reason the thread gets woken
up, a ThreadInterruptedException is thrown.
Because this method can only be called by the current thread and not
on a reference to a thread that may also be executing, the thread
sleeps immediately and does not need to wait for a safe point for
garbage collection as the Suspend( ) method does
(see later in this entry).
GetData( ) retrieves data from a
specified slot in thread local
storage. To use this method, slots need to be initialized
already (see later in this section). SetData( )
stores data in thread local storage to be
retrieved using GetData( ).
AllocateDataSlot( ) and
AllocateNamedDataSlot( ) allocate a data slot for
use with the previous two methods.
The Thread class also provides the static property
CurrentThread, which returns a reference to the
Thread object for the currently running thread.
The current thread can then access any of the following instance
methods or properties on itself: Abort( ) causes a
thread to abort, throwing a ThreadAbortException
and executing any finally blocks. You may catch
the ThreadAbortException ...