Interrupt a sleeping Thread

Question

Is there a way to Interupt a sleeping thread? If I have code similar to this.

while(true){
    if(DateTime.Now.Subtract(_lastExecuteTime).TotalHours > 1)         


        

Answer 1

why not use a BlockingCollection? I see it as a much more elegant approach than the accepted answer. i also do not think there is much overhead compared to the monitor.

here is how to do it:

initialize a BlockingCollection as a member:

BlockingCollection _sleeper = new BlockingCollection();

insted of

Thread.Sleep(10000)

do this

int dummy;
_sleeper.TryTake(out dummy, 10000);

to wake it up you can use this code

_sleeper.Add(0);