How to terminate a worker thread correctly in c#

Question

Problem statement

I have a worker thread that basically scans a folder, going into the files within it, and then sleeps for a while. The scanning operat

Answer 1

The way to stop a thread elegantly is to leave it finish by itself. So inside the worker method you could have a boolean variable which will check whether we want to interrupt. By default it will be set to false and when you set it to true from the main thread it will simply stop the scanning operation by breaking from the processing loop.