Multithreading

[Suzi167]

Hello All gurus,

I have a multithreading question.

I am writing a service which basically is going to be a listener which monitors a folder and when files are dropped in it...etc,etc..... in other words it will be running constantly until I stop the service.

I have the following code:

 protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
        {
            ThreadStart ControllerJob = new ThreadStart(_serviceController.StartProcessing);
            Thread thread = new Thread(ControllerJob);
            thread.Start();
        }

The service registers fine and starts running but the folder monitoring is not quite working.
I have a suspicion that it is because of the way I have the multithreading implemented because when I put
a debug log message after the thread.Start() call I never get the message - and if that is really on a separate thread then I should - right?

Can u by looking at my code tell me what is wrong with the way I have it?

THanks very much in advance.

SUsan

[yraen]

My limited experience doesn't see anything wrong with the code sample you supplied. Using the same general logic, I tossed a test together and it worked fine...

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Thread _test = new Thread(new ThreadStart(MyThread));
            _test.Start();
            MessageBox.Show("Hi");
        }

        private void MyThread()
        {
            Thread.Sleep(5000);
            MessageBox.Show("Bye");
        }

The "Hi" message appears before the "Bye" message

[RaleTheBlade]

What does the ControllerJob method body look like?

[Suzi167]

The _controller.StartProcessing basically calls another object called Watcher.StartProcessing,etc. which monitors a folder for dropped files in it.

[Suzi167]

Thanks to all of you who replied.
I just wanted to say that I resolved the issue.

After looking at the code I saw that the threads were running well indeed ( based on the post that yraen made I noticed a problem with my log) and it was a database issue.

Thanks again for taking the time and looking at my problem

Susan