Multithreading with C# Cookbook - Second Edition

Aborting a thread

In this recipe, we will describe how to abort another thread's execution.

Getting ready

To work through this recipe, you will need Visual Studio 2015. There are no other prerequisites. The source code for this recipe can be found at BookSamples\Chapter1\Recipe4.

How to do it...

To understand how to abort another thread's execution, perform the following steps:

1. Start Visual Studio 2015. Create a new C# console application project.
2. In the Program.cs file, add the following using directives:

   using System;
   using System.Threading;
   using static System.Console;

3. Using the static System.Threading.Thread, add the following code snippet below the Main method:

   static void PrintNumbersWithDelay() { WriteLine("Starting..."); for (int i = 1; i < 10; ...