Consider a Console application that starts up some services in a separate thread. All it needs to do is wait for the user to press Ctrl+C to shut it down. Which of the following is the better way...

From NET 4 I can use the ManualResetEventSlim class that make a little spinning before blocking in order to get a time optimization if the blocking time is little (I have no context switch). I'd li...

I have a long running process that sends data to the other machine. But this data is received in chunks (like a set of 100 packets, then delay of minimum 10 seconds). I started the sending f...

I have read the documentation on this and I think I understand. An AutoResetEvent resets when the code passes through event.WaitOne(), but a ManualResetEvent does not. Is this correct?

i am not familiar with the usage of ManualResetEvent ? is it thread related. what it does and when it is used? here i got a code where ManualResetEvent is used but i just do not understand what i...

I am writing a program that has a few threads, each with a while loop that runs until the user specifies it should stop. I thought of a few ways to exit out of the loops, and subsequently the threa...

The MSDN documentation for ManualResetEventSlim states You can use this class for better performance than ManualResetEvent when wait times are expected to be very short. How long is "very shor...

I've written a WPF WizardFramework which performs some actions in the background using some BackgroundWorker. While processing it can happen that I have to update an ObservableCollection which is b...

I am not sure which strategy to adopt...I am focusing on my operation getting completed, but I'd also like to keep performance issues to a min too...there is a method called Execute() which has to ...

I have written what I hope is a lightweight alternative to using the ManualResetEvent and AutoResetEvent classes in C#/.NET. The reasoning behind this was to have Event like functionality without t...

I have a problem in a production service which contains a "watchdog" timer used to check whether the main processing job has become frozen (this is related to a COM interop problem which unfortunat...

Windows allows the creation of (named) Event objects. An Event (the synchronization primitive in Windows) can be of type auto-reset (in which case you could say it's kind of a semaphore) or it can ...

I'm trying to implement a class which uses a simple cache for holding data retrieved from an internal service. I'm using a ManualResetEvent to block multiple threads which may try to refresh the ca...

I am attempting to utilize MSDN's Asynchronous Client Socket code sample to connect and control some home equipment. As I understand, the sample code's ReceiveCallback method uses an instance of th...

I encounter a deadlock caused when locking instance of manualResetEvent. I can't figure out how to solve it. I will appreciate any help. I have 2 methods in a class performed by different threads:...

The method below should return true for the first call, and false for any other call. Is there any problem with it? Is it safe to use the reset event for locking? private ManualResetEvent _reset...

I'm a little confused over a ManualResetEvent that I'm using which doesn't appear to be unblocking. Anyone know why this might be the case? The scenario I've got is something along these lines. Th...

I feel like I should know the answer to this, but I'm going to ask anyway just in case I'm making a potentially catastrophic mistake. The following code executes as expected with no errors/excepti...

I implemented the following background processing thread, where Jobs is a Queue<T>: static void WorkThread() { while (working) { var job; lock (Jobs) { if (Jobs.Count > 0) job = J...