Abort the asynchronous operation

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Hi,
Can anybody tell me how to abort the asynchronous operation?

Problem such.

I have created the application which gathers some information from different databases. And this process can be very durable, therefore I call procedure of collection asynchronous that there was a possibility it to interrupt at any time.

That I have made:

VB.NET

Public class Manager

    Public Sub ImportTransfers
        'Collect information
    End Sub

End class

Public Class frm_Main

    Delegate Sub dlg_Importer()
    Dim Importer As dlg_Importer
    Dim CallBackImport As AsyncCallback

    Private Sub frm_Main_Load
          Call Init_Delegates()
    End Sub

        Private Sub Init_Delegates()
          Importer = AddressOf Manager.ImportTransfers
          CallBackImport = AddressOf CallBack_Import
        End Sub

        Private Sub btn_ImportTransfers_Click
          Importer.BeginInvoke(CallBackImport, Nothing)
    End Sub

        Sub CallBack_Import(ByVal ar As IAsyncResult)
          Importer.EndInvoke(ar)
        End Sub

        Private Sub btn_StopProcess_Click
           'I do not know what to write here to stop process...
        End Sub

End Class

The CallBack_Import procedure is fulfilled after ImportTransfers procedure end, but how to stop ImportTransfers by button btn_StopProcess Click?

Posted 25-Apr-10 23:49pm

Makso

Updated 26-Apr-10 0:10am

Tom Deketelaere

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Syed Saqib Ali Tipu · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-26T03:08:00

Makso, I don't think that asynchronous call will solve your problem. The only solution you have is to send a reference of that asynchronous thread back to the main thread, a very very dirty solution.

What I mean is setting up a form level variable

System.Threading.Thread asynchOperation;

And in your asynchronous method just set it like this.

this.asynchOperation = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread;

And then in your btn_StopProcess_Click()

this.asynchOperation.Abort();

Also don't forget to wrap your asynchronous operation in try catch and catching System.Threading.ThreadAbortException.

But i will strictly advise against this solution. Aborting a ThreadPool thread is not an idea, anyone will favor. It's reported to be recreated anyway. I myself has aborted as an experiment about 70 threads and everytime i got back a thread with managedID 6. I haven't confirmed the unmanaged status, but at least it was recreating these threads.

A better solution would be using Thread class Explicitly