Finalizers and Dispose

Question

I\'ve got a class named BackgroundWorker that has a thread constantly running. To turn this thread off, an instance variable named stop to needs to

Answer 1

Out of interest, any reason this couldn't use the regular BackgroundWorker, which has full support for cancellation?

Re the lock - a volatile bool field might be less troublesome.

However, in this case your finalizer isn't doing anything interesting, especially given the "if(disposing)" - i.e. it only runs the interesting code during Dispose(). Personally I'd be tempted to stick with just IDisposable, and not provide a finalizer: you should be cleaning it up with Dispose().