How do you pass arguments to a Thread that you create

1. Pass data using Lambda Expressions:

1. static void Main()
2. {
3. String m = "yeahh!";
4. Thread thread = new Thread ( () => PrintToConsole (m) );
5. thread.Start();
6. }
8. static void PrintToConsole (string message)
9. {
10. Console.WriteLine (message);
11. }

In the above example we have effectively passed m into the thread function. Any number of parameters can be passed this way.

2. Another way is to use the overloaded Thread.Start function which accepts ParamterizedThreadStart.

1. string parameter = "xyz";
2. Thread thread = new Thread(new ParameterizedThreadStart(PrintToConsole));
3. thread.Start(parameter);
4. private void PrintToConsole(object o)
5. {
6. String m = (String) o;
7. Console.WriteLine(m);
8. }

3. This is the same as (1) but the example is for .Net 4.0 Tasks

Task.Factory.StartNew(() => SomeMethod(p1,p2,p3));