Scheduling work to occur on the thread-pool : ThreadPool « Thread « C# / CSharp Tutorial

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3. ThreadPool

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Security;
using System.Text;

public class MainClass
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        using (ManualResetEvent mre = new ManualResetEvent(false))
        {
            ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(new WaitCallback(MyThreadPoolWorker), mre);
            
            Console.WriteLine("Continuing work on the main thread: {0}",
                Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId);

            mre.WaitOne();
        }
        
    }
    private static void MyThreadPoolWorker(object state)
    {
        ManualResetEvent mre = (ManualResetEvent)state;

        Console.WriteLine("Work occurring on the thread-pool: {0}",
            Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId);

        // set the event to let our caller know we're done:
        mre.Set();
    }

}

Work occurring on the thread-pool: 3
Continuing work on the main thread: 1