"Hitesh Ashar" <hitesh.nospam@asharism.com> wrote in message
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> I'm working with a CF project and I need to interrupt a thread.
>
> Thread.Interrupt() is not supported in CF. Would anyone know if there are
> any alternatives to do the same?
>
> TIA
> --
> Hitesh Ashar
> hitesh (at) asharism (dot) com

Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] wrote:
> Interrupt it for what purpose? Generally, if you're just planning to exit a
> thread, you need to write your code in such a way that conventional
> interthread communication methods are used to notify the thread that it's
> time to exit. For example, if the thread is managing communications with a
> Socket and you want to exit the thread, you'd set an 'exit' flag and close
> the socket from your controller thread. The thread would get some sort of
> an exception because the socket was closed out from under it, it would then
> check the exit flag and clean itself up.
>
> Paul T.
>

"Hitesh Ashar" <hitesh.nospam@asharism.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Paul. I understand what you are saying.
>
> However, I'm trying to migrate a full .NET library to CF and I am to avoid
> any changes to the behavior of the code. The CF does have limited
> overloads, however, there are several workarounds and I was wondering if
> there was one to Thread.Interrupt.
>
> BR,
> Hitesh
>
> Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] wrote:
>> Interrupt it for what purpose? Generally, if you're just planning to
>> exit a thread, you need to write your code in such a way that
>> conventional interthread communication methods are used to notify the
>> thread that it's time to exit. For example, if the thread is managing
>> communications with a Socket and you want to exit the thread, you'd set
>> an 'exit' flag and close the socket from your controller thread. The
>> thread would get some sort of an exception because the socket was closed
>> out from under it, it would then check the exit flag and clean itself up.
>>
>> Paul T.
>>
>
> --
> Hitesh Ashar
> hitesh (at) asharism (dot) com