What's wrong with using Thread.Abort()

Question

So I know that you shouldn\'t use

Thread.Abort()

But I\'ve never been given a good explanation. Is there a performance penalty or some hid

Answer 1

Thread.Abort stops your thread in an uncontrolled fashion. thread.Abort will throw an exception, which will cause that your thread stops immediatly.

What is wrong with that: in most cases, you want to gracefully stop the operation that you're performing. For instance, if you are executing an ACID operation, you might want to complete the current operation before ending the thread, so that your system remains in a stable state.