What is a good way to shutdown Threads blocked on NamedPipeServer#WaitForConnection?

Question

I start my application which spawns a number of Threads, each of which creates a NamedPipeServer (.net 3.5 added managed types for Named Pipe IPC) and waits for clients to

Answer 1

Switch to the asynchronous version: BeginWaitForConnection.

If it does ever complete, you'll need a flag so the completion handler can just call EndWaitForConnection absorbing any exceptions and exiting (call End... to ensure any resources are able to be cleaned up).