Start and stop(forced) a threaded job

Question

I want to know a proper way to start and stop a threaded job forced and unforced. Is this the proper way to stop a Thread?

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Answer 1

There is no proper way to forcibly kill a thread.

There are several ways to do it, but none of them are proper.

Forcibly killing a thread is what you should do only if you need to terminate the program, or unload the appdomain containing the thread, and don´t care about any data structures left dangling in a corrupted/bad/locked state, because they will be gone in a short while as well.

There´s plenty of advice on the internet about how bad/evil Thread.Abort is, so don´t do it.

Instead, write proper cooperative threading. The thread(s) should themselves check a flag (event, volatile bool field, etc.) and then voluntairly exit when nicely asked to do so.

That is the proper way.