C# Threading.Suspend in Obsolete, thread has been deprecated?

Question

In my application, I am performing my file reading by another thread(other that GUI thread). There are two buttons that suspend and resume the Thread respectively.

Answer 1

I would use the Monitor mechanism for achieving pausing and resuming threads. The Monitor.Wait will cause the thread to wait for the Monitor.Pulse.

private bool _pause = false;
private object _threadLock = new object();

private void RunThread()
{
    while (true)
    {
        if (_pause)
        {
            lock (_threadLock)
            {
                Monitor.Wait(_threadLock);
            }
        }

        // Do work
    }
}

private void PauseThread()
{
    _pause = true;
}

private void ResumeThread()
{
    _pause = false;
    lock (_threadLock)
    {
        Monitor.Pulse(_threadLock);
    }
}