The Weird and The Wonderful

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Thread m_thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(GenerateTimeLineImage));
    m_thread.Start();
    m_thread.Join();
}

void GenerateTimeLineImage()
{
    Thread.Sleep(10000);
}

Thread t1 = ... ; t1.Start() ;
Thread t2 = ... ; t2.Start() ;
...
Thread tn = ... ; tn.Start() ;

Join  (t1 ) ;
Join  (t2 ) ;
...
Join  (tn ) ;

private static void
InvokeAll
(
  params System.Threading.ThreadStart[] Items
)
{
  /* Null checking  :D  */

  System.Threading.Thread[] thread = new System.Threading.Thread [ Items.Length ] ;

  for ( int i = 0 ; i < Items.Length ; i++ )
  {
    if ( Items [ i ] != null )
    {
      thread [ i ] = new System.Threading.Thread ( Items [ i ] ) ;
      thread [ i ].Start() ;
    }
  }

  for ( int i = 0 ; i < thread.Length ; i++ )
  {
    if ( thread [ i ] != null )
    {
      thread [ i ].Join() ;
    }
  }

  return ;
}

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

Or perhaps to protect the UI thread from Exceptions?

Member 7679313 wrote:

Call me a nice guy who generally gives people the benefit of the doubt, but this
looks like code where someone INTENDED for some operations to occur on separate
threads asynchronously, put some of the plumbing in, put a thread.join in for
synchronous debugging, and never got back to it.