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Start Method

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Causes the operating system to change the state of the current instance to ThreadState..::..Running.

Namespace:  System.Threading
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Sub Start
public void Start()
public:
void Start()
member Start : unit -> unit 
public function Start()

Remarks

Once a thread is in the ThreadState..::..Running state, the operating system can schedule it for execution. The thread begins executing at the first line of the method represented by the ThreadStart or ParameterizedThreadStart delegate supplied to the thread constructor.

Once the thread terminates, it cannot be restarted with another call to Start.

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See Also

Reference

Thread Class

System.Threading Namespace