.NET: How to have background thread signal main thread data is available?

Question

What is the proper technique to have ThreadA signal ThreadB of some event, without having ThreadB sit blocked waiting for an e

Answer 1

There are many ways to do this, depending upon exactly what you want to do. A producer/consumer queue is probably what you want. For an excellent in-depth look into threads, see the chapter on Threading (available online) from the excellent book C# 3.0 in a Nutshell.