前台线程和后台线程的区别

参考自：http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/system.threading.thread.isbackground.aspx

一个线程或者是后台线程或者是前台线程（二选一），在C#中，可以通过属性Thread.IsBackground来获取或设置。

默认新创建的线程为前台线程！

public bool IsBackground { get; set; }

命名空间：using  System.Threading;

后台线程与前台线程类似，

区别是：后台线程不会阻止进程的终止，即，当进程中的所有前台线程都执行结束之后，公共语言运行时（CLR）就会结束该进程，而不管后台线程的结束与否。

代码示例：

下面的代码示例对比了前台线程与后台线程的行为。 创建一个前台线程和一个后台线程。 前台线程使进程保持运行，直到它完成它的 while 循环。 前台线程完成后，进程在后台线程完成它的 while 循环之前终止。

主函数：

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //前台线程的回调
            BackgroundTest shortTest = new BackgroundTest(10);

            //创建前台线程
            Thread foregroundThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(shortTest.RunLoop));
            foregroundThread.Name = "ForegroundThread";

            //后台线程的回调
            BackgroundTest longTest = new BackgroundTest(50);

            //创建后台线程
            Thread backgroundThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(longTest.RunLoop));
            backgroundThread.Name = "BackgroundThread";
            //设置为后台线程
            backgroundThread.IsBackground = true;

            //前、后台线程开始执行
            foregroundThread.Start();
            backgroundThread.Start();
        }

负责工作内容的类：

class BackgroundTest
{
    //最大迭代数
    int maxIterations;

    public BackgroundTest(int maxIterations)
    {
        this.maxIterations = maxIterations;
    }

    //线程执行的具体代码
    public void RunLoop()
    {
        String threadName = Thread.CurrentThread.Name;

        for (int i = 0; i < maxIterations; i++)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("{0} count: {1}", threadName, i.ToString());
            Thread.Sleep(250);
        }
        Console.WriteLine("{0} finished counting.", threadName);
    }
}

输出结果：

ForegroundThread count: 0
BackgroundThread count: 0
BackgroundThread count: 1
ForegroundThread count: 1
BackgroundThread count: 2
ForegroundThread count: 2
BackgroundThread count: 3
ForegroundThread count: 3
BackgroundThread count: 4
ForegroundThread count: 4
BackgroundThread count: 5
ForegroundThread count: 5
BackgroundThread count: 6
ForegroundThread count: 6
BackgroundThread count: 7
ForegroundThread count: 7
ForegroundThread count: 8
BackgroundThread count: 8
BackgroundThread count: 9
ForegroundThread count: 9
BackgroundThread count: 10
ForegroundThread finished counting.
请按任意键继续. . .

即：前台线程执行10次循环之后结束，进程随着前台线程的结束而结束，而不会理会后台线程的执行与否。