Using the AutoResetEvent construct

In this recipe, there is an example of how to send notifications from one thread to another with the help of an AutoResetEvent construct. AutoResetEvent notifies a waiting thread that an event has occurred.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need Visual Studio 2012. There are no other prerequisites. The source code for this recipe could be found at 7644_Code\Chapter2\Recipe4.

How to do it...

To understand how to send notifications from one thread to another with the help of the AutoResetEvent construct, perform the following steps:

1. Start Visual Studio 2012. Create a new C# Console Application project.

2. In the Program.cs file add the following using directives:

   using System;
   using System.Threading;

3. Below the Main method, add the following code snippet:

   private static AutoResetEvent _workerEvent = newAutoResetEvent(false);
   private static AutoResetEvent _mainEvent = newAutoResetEvent(false);
   
   static void Process(int seconds)
   {
     Console.WriteLine("Starting...