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

You need the full disposable pattern but the stop has to be something the thread can access. If it is a member variable of the class being disposed, that's no good because it can't reference a disposed class. Consider having an event that the thread owns and signaling that on dispose instead.