Question

I need to start a thread, but continue just after the thread is actually running. Now my code looks like:

        splashthread.IsBackground = false;
        splashthread.Start();
        Thread.Sleep(100); // Wait for the thread to start

I’m not fond of these voodoo sleeps (to say the least), so I’m looking for more nifty way of doing the above.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Something like this:

var splashStart = new ManualResetEvent(false);

var splashthread = new Thread(
  () =>
  {
     splashStart.Set();
     // Your thread code here...
  });

splashthread.Start();
splashStart.WaitOne();

Don’t forget to Dipose splashStart or if it’s appropriate in your code use a using block.

Edit: Didn’t confirm the original code in the IDE. Changed Wait to WaitOne() as per comment below.