Starting an STA thread, but with parameters to the final function
- by DRapp
I'm a bit weak on how some delegates behave, such as passing a method as the parameter to be invoked. While trying to do some NUnit test scripts, I have something that I need to run many test with. Each of these tests requires a GUI created and thus the need for an STA thread. So, I have something like
public class MyTest
{
// the Delegate "ThreadStart" is part of the System.Threading namespace and is defined as
// public delegate void ThreadStart();
protected void Start_STA_Thread(ThreadStart whichMethod)
{
Thread thread = new Thread(whichMethod);
thread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA); //Set the thread to STA
thread.Start();
thread.Join();
}
[Test]
public void Test101()
{
// Since the thread issues an INVOKE of a method, I'm having it call the
// corresponding "FromSTAThread" method, such as
Start_STA_Thread( Test101FromSTAThread );
}
protected void Test101FromSTAThread()
{
MySTA_RequiredClass oTmp = new MySTA_RequiredClass();
Assert.IsTrue( oTmp.DoSomething() );
}
}
This part all works fine... Now the next step. I now have a different set of tests that ALSO require an STA thread. However, each "thing" I need to do requires two parameters... both strings (for this case).
How do I go about declaring proper delegate so I can pass in the method I need to invoke, AND the two string parameters in one shot... I may have 20+ tests to run with in this pattern and may have future of other similar tests with different parameter counts and types of parameters too.
Thanks.
