In C# what is the recommended way of passing data between 2 threads?

Question

I have my main GUI thread, and a second thread running inside it\'s own ApplicationContext (to keep it alive, even when there is no work to be done). I want to call a method

Answer 1

In effect, you have created a poor man's version of a ThreadPool. Your second thread is just sitting there doing nothing and without a fair amount of work on your part, you can't just get it to do work for you. You would have to pass delegates into a queue that your thread then takes off and executes.

Your best bet is to do what you intended and just use the .NET ThreadPool and give it work to do.