Demonstates starting and waiting on a thread : Thread Start Wait : Thread C# Source Code

    

/*
C# Programming Tips & Techniques
by Charles Wright, Kris Jamsa

Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill (December 28, 2001)
ISBN: 0072193794
*/

// Thread.cs -- Demonstates starting and waiting on a thread
//
//              Compile this program with the following command line:
//                  C:>csc Thread.cs
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Threading;

namespace nsThreads
{
    public class ThreadDemo
    {
        static public void Main ()
        {
// Create the new thread object
            Thread NewThread = new Thread (new ThreadStart (RunThread));
// Show a message box.
            MessageBox.Show ("Click OK to start the thread", "Thread Start");
// Start the new thread.
            NewThread.Start ();
// Inform everybody that the main thread is waiting
            Console.WriteLine ("Waiting . . .");
// Wait for NewThread to terminate.
            NewThread.Join ();
// And it's done.
            Console.WriteLine ("\r\nDone . . .");
        }

// Method to assign to the new thread as its start method
        static public void RunThread ()
        {
// Sleep for a second, print and message and repeat.
            for (int x = 5; x > 0; --x)
            {
                Thread.Sleep (1000);
                Console.Write ("Thread is running. {0} second{1}  \r",
                               x, x > 1 ? "s" : "");
            }
// The thread will terminate at this point. It will not return to
// the method that started it.
        }
    }
}