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 2015. There are no other prerequisites. The source code for this recipe can be found at BookSamples\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 2015. Create a new C# console application project.
2. In the Program.cs file, add the following using directives:

   using System;
   using System.Threading;
   using static System.Console;
   using static System.Threading.Thread;

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

   private static AutoResetEvent _workerEvent = new AutoResetEvent(false);
   private static AutoResetEvent _mainEvent = new AutoResetEvent...