Multithreading with C# Cookbook - Second Edition

Determining a thread state

This recipe will describe the possible states a thread could have. It is useful to get information about whether a thread is started yet or whether it is in a blocked state. Note that because a thread runs independently, its state could be changed at any time.

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\Recipe5.

How to do it...

To understand how to determine a thread state and acquire useful information about it, 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 ...