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 shared 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 shared 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 ...
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