Determining a Threads State

Determining a Thread’s State

The state of a thread can be obtained from the ThreadState property provided by Thread. It is shown here:

 public ThreadState ThreadState{ get; }

The state of the thread is returned as a value defined by the ThreadState enumeration. It defines the following values:

ThreadState.Aborted	ThreadState.AbortRequested
ThreadState.Background	ThreadState.Running
ThreadState.Stopped	ThreadState.StopRequested
ThreadState.Suspended	ThreadState.SuspendRequested
ThreadState.Unstarted	ThreadState.WaitSleepJoin

All but one of these values is self-explanatory. The one that needs some explanation is ThreadState.WaitSleepJoin. A thread enters this state when it is waiting because of a call to Wait( ), Sleep( ), or Join( ).