Multithreading with C# Cookbook - Second Edition

Foreground and background threads

This recipe will describe what foreground and background threads are and how setting this option affects the program's behavior.

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\Recipe7.

How to do it...

To understand the effect of foreground and background threads on a program, 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;
   using static System.Threading.Thread;

3. Add the following code snippet below the Main method: ...