Question

I am using following single threaded appartment. I am unable to reclaim memory/other resources from thread object. Actullay I want to wrap my thread in try catch and fianlly block. try and catch are done. But I am unsure about finally block. What code, property or function do I need to call in finally block.

System.Threading.Thread myThread = null;     try      {         myThread = new System.Threading.Thread(functionAddressETC)         myThread .SetApartmentState(System.Threading.ApartmentState.STA);         myThread .Start();         myThread .Join();     } catch(Exception ex) {} finally {    // I need help in finally block. I need to reclaim all my resources    //what function do i need to call here?????? } 

Answer 1

The GC will reclaim memory, finalizers will free native resources. The only way to ensure these processes happen is to ensure that objects you no longer need are unreferenced.

A thread does not have any memory/resources of its own apart from its stack, which will be cleaned up by the Join shutting down the thread (unless you have something messing with duplicating native thread handles: in which case when the last handle is closed).