Application.Current.Shutdown() doesn't

Question

Title\'s about it. WPF app with some WCF stuff for IPC. I call Application.Current.Shutdown() and the app continues on happily. I thought Shutdown

Answer 1

In my experience all threads have to either be terminated explicitly or be marked as background threads in order for the application to close.

Here is an example of kicking off a read thread in the background:

_readThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(ReadThread));
_readThread.Name = "Receiver";
_readThread.Priority = ThreadPriority.Highest;
_readThread.IsBackground = true;
_readThread.Start();

The IsBackground property is the key. Without that being set, the thread won't terminate on when you call Shutdown.