In C#, how does one make a thread live indefinitely? MyObject obj = new MyObject(); Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(obj.MyMethod)); t.Start(); Because MyMethod has code in it that kicks off an asynchronous process in it, I want that thread to live forever (or at least until the application is terminated). Any ideas on how that might be accomplished? Thank you, Dan

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OK, I understand that, but what I am getting at is that if I had the data write to a file at the end of the reading routine, that file write routine would be executed 4 times (since I have four threads) which is slower than dumping all of the read data into a buffer and then writing the buffer outside of the 4 threads - am I correct? Speed is of the essence with this procedure.

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I'm not sure I understand Asynchronous method calling? I've never seen that before. Could you point me in the direction of some information on that, or shoot me over some example code?

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Ah I see what you are saying - my problem is this: then I have multiple disk IO reads, which will slow the system down compared to one. In this project, speed is absolutely necessary. Is there any way that I can write it to memory, so that I can combine the 4 results and write to the file once?

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Let me give you some psudeo code - because I'm not understanding. Here is what I am doing: public class MainClass { private void GetData() { MyObject mo = new MyObject(); Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(mo.Connect)); t.Start(); MyObject mo2 = new MyObject(); Thread t2 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(mo2.Connect)); t2.Start(); MyObject mo2 = new MyObject(); Thread t3 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(mo3.Connect)); t3.Start(); MyObject mo3 = new MyObject(); Thread t4 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(mo4.Connect)); t4.Start(); //WHAT I WANT TO DO IS BE ABLE TO GRAB THE RESULTS FROM THE THREADS STARTED ABOVE //AND PUSH THEM INTO A FILE. I NEED ALL OF THE DATA FROM ALL FOUR THREADS COMBINED INTO ONE FILE } } Public class MyObject { public MyObject() { } public void Connect() { //Starts all the socket stuff.. } //...OTHER SOCKET RELATED FUNCTIONS GO HERE. } How do I get the data in the Connect function to the calling function in MainClass?

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I am developing a windows form app in C# -.net 1.1 framework. The app creates 4 objects and executes a "Go" method in 4 threads - each thread goes off, grabs some data from a UDP socket, and processes it. What I need is to get the processed data from each of the 4 threads (objects) and combine them into one string. I can not figure out how to get the individual threads to return anything. I tried to create a string and pass it to each object's constructor as a reference, but that went nowhere. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can accomplish this? Dan Senior Developer Mitsubishi Power Systems

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