C# - Abort a looping thread

Question

I have threads that displays of data by looping on a certain interval by using Thread.Sleep.

public class myThread{


            public void threadPBAPI()
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < _PBAPI.Length; i++)
                {
                    try
                    {
                        Console.writeLine();
                        Thread.Sleep(_interval * 1000);
                    }
                    catch (NullReferenceException)
                    {

                    }
                }
            }
}

I want to abort stop this activity because, when i press a button a new set of data will load and want to perform this same activity from the start.

I tried doing Thread.Abort(); on a button Click event. but it did not throw the ThreadAbortException.

on doing Thread.Join(); after Thread.Abort(); it throws the ThreadStateException "Thread Has not been started" when the thread is doing the actions its supposed to be doing.

Answer 1

this worked for me:

set a global boolean flag -

isThreadAbort = false.

When its true, you can use

break;

or

i = _PBAPI.Length