C# 3.5 Visual Studio 2010: MultiThreading - Main Thread continue on signal

[MarcoDiMarco]

Hi all!

This is my very first post so dont hate me if i forget to include something.
Currently i have build a bot in C#. Nothing Fancy, it connects and i can interact with the stuff on the channel.
But now i would like to be able to insert commands in the commandline after connecting to the server.
Ive succesfully seperated the code from the main class to a different class, which will be used in another thread. I create this thread in the main class/thread.

So here is the deal:
- Before actually connecting, i would like to send a message to the main thread so it can run other code making my console to be able to recieve user input.
- Upon closing, i would like to send a terminate signal to the other thread.

Now im a 'oke' C# guy but im still have a long way to go. This is my very first attempt on multithreading. I cannot find any tutorials on this subject that i can understand so hopefully some of you guru's are able to.

If added some example code below. Please advice
Many thanks in advance!

code:



Oke this is my main class:

namespace Lydic
{
	class LydicBot
	{   
        private static void Main()
	    {
            Thread ircConnectionThread = new Thread(GetIrcConnectionMethod());
            ircConnectionThread.Start();
			// at this point i'd like to recieve the signal from the above thread to continue the following code:
			executeCommand();
	    }
        private static ThreadStart GetIrcConnectionMethod()
        {
            return ircConnection;
        }
        static void ircConnection()
        {
            connectionHandler Lydic = new connectionHandler();
        }
		void executeCommand (string command)
		{
			if(String.IsNullOrEmpty(command))
			{
				Console.WriteLine("Input command:"); // 
				string command = Console.ReadLine().ToString();
				executeCommand(command);
			} else {
				// switch case stuff with commands
			}
		}
	}
}

Ive created a second class called connectionHandler, wich basically includes the following:

namespace Lydic
{
	class connectionHandler
	{
        private IrcClient irc = new IrcClient();
        private string server = "irc.geekshed.net";
        private int port = 6667;
        private string channel = "#lydic";

        private static void LydicBot()
        {
            connectionHandler demo = new connectionHandler();
        }

        public connectionHandler()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Input server address (default: irc.warez-bb.org):");
            string serverAddress = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.WriteLine("Input server port (default: 6667):");
            string serverPort = Console.ReadLine();

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(serverAddress))
            {
                server = serverAddress;
            }

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(serverPort))
            { //int serverPort = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine()); 
                port = Convert.ToInt32(serverPort);
            }
            irc.OnConnected += new EventHandler(OnConnected);

            connectToServer();
        }
        public void connectToServer()
        {
            try
            {
                irc.Connect(server, port);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.Write("[{1}] Failed to connect: {0}", e.Message, DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString());
                Console.ReadKey();
            }
        }

        void OnConnected(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (server == "irc.warez-bb.org")
            {
                irc.SendMessage(SendType.Message, "NickServ", "identify DERP");
            }
            irc.Login("Lydic", "Lydic", 0, "Lydic");
            irc.RfcJoin(channel);
	    // At this point i'd like to send a signal to my main thread to tell him that he can execute the other code, but the code below must be executed as well!
            irc.Listen();
        }
	}
}