Question

I need a little confirmation over something I am confused at. I know how threads work in java:

new DialList(string a , string b).start(); // where DialList is a class

public class DialList extends Thread {
    public DialList(String a, string b) {
        FilePath = a; 
        ThreadLogFile = b"; 
    }

    public void run() {
        // some code to run in different thread
    }
}

Now I want to run the same code in C#. Shall I put the code which is in run() into a method and do something like:

 Thread t = new Thread (runcsharp);          // Kick off a new thread
 t.Start(); 
 static void runcsharp(parameters) {
     // code
 }

or is there some other way to do it?

Answer 1

There are a few different ways to start a new thread in C#. For example:

static void run()
{
    Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(WriteY));
    t.Start();   // Run WriteY on the new thread.
}

void WriteY()
{
    // do something
}

Note that this assumes that WriteY has no parameters. If it did, you would have to use the ParameterizedThreadStart delegate.
For detailed information, see Joe Albahari’s excellent (and free) ebook.

edit: if I understand this correctly, you have an object of type DialList that you want to pass to a new thread. You can do that in C# this way:

void WriteY(DialList dl)
{ // do something with the DialList
}

var dl = new DialList(AString, BString);
Thread T = new Thread( () => WriteY(dl) );