Question

i’ve a loop which gets data from some Websites and it takes about an hour for that loop to get the data and populate it in a database, this loop is in a thread and i want to add a button that pauses the thread until the button is clicked again and it resumes where it stopped.
how can i do this in a safe way?

Answer 1

Try this:

Public Sub PauseThreadButton_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles PauseThreadButton.Click
    'REM: Next line puts your thread in a suspended state
    TheThread.Suspend()
End Sub

To resume:

Public Sub ResumeThreadButton_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles ResumeThreadButton.Click
    'REM: Next line resumes your thread
    TheThread.Resume()
End Sub