BasicWorkItem Class

Standard constructor

Allowing to abort is disabled per default since thread aborting results in unstable system state, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163644.aspx : [..] "I'll caution you against using Thread.Abort to control the lifetime of a thread, especially if you have little knowledge about the implementation of the code you're aborting. An abort inside of a critical region could spell disaster for an entire AppDomain, and while a polite abort does signficantly reduce the window of disaster to very tiny slivers, that one time out of 1,000 could lead to a deadlock or resource leak or worse."

Whether to allow aborting the HandleWorkItem method if the maximum busy time exceeded. Per default this value is true.

This property is set to true if the work item was terminated before it finished processing, this may happen e.g. if AllowAbortUponExceedingTimeLimit was true.

The maximum time a workItem may be busy until it is aborted. Must be > 0 to be taken into account.

The result of the work item

A work item can be tagged to be distinguishable from other items

This method is called from HandleWorkItem when the work item is processed. May set Result if the operation returned a result

Calls HandleWorkItem method, then after the call to the method returns, issues the event WorkDone if assigned

Sets the state of the item (IsTerminated to true), issues the Terminated event if assigned.

Returns the Tag as string.

This event occurs if the item terminated before it finished processing. IsTerminated and AllowAbortUponExceedingTimeLimit

Register to this event to get notified when the item HandleWorkItem method has finished.