Thread

Creates and controls a thread, sets its priority, and gets its status.

Properties (1)

bool IsBackground

Gets or sets a value indicating whether or not a thread is a background thread.

Value: true if this thread is or is to become a background thread; otherwise, false.

Methods (7)

Thread(Threading.ThreadStart)Constructor

Initializes a new instance of the Thread class.

Parameter	Description
start	A ThreadStart delegate that represents the methods to be invoked when this thread begins executing.

void Sleep(Int32)

Suspends the current thread for the specified number of milliseconds.

Parameter	Description
millisecondsTimeout	The number of milliseconds for which the thread is suspended. If the value of the millisecondsTimeout argument is zero, the thread relinquishes the remainder of its time slice to any thread of equal priority that is ready to run. If there are no other threads of equal priority that are ready to run, execution of the current thread is not suspended.

bool Yield

Causes the calling thread to yield execution to another thread that is ready to run on the current processor. The operating system selects the thread to yield to.

Returns: true if the operating system switched execution to another thread; otherwise, false.

void SpinWait(Int32)

Causes a thread to wait the number of times defined by the iterations parameter.

Parameter	Description
iterations	A 32-bit signed integer that defines how long a thread is to wait.

void Start

Causes the operating system to change the state of the current instance to Running.

void Join

Blocks the calling thread until the thread represented by this instance terminates, while continuing to perform standard COM and SendMessage pumping.

void SetApartmentState(Threading.ApartmentState)

Sets the apartment state of a thread before it is started.

Parameter	Description
state	The new apartment state.