How can I stop all methods from running in my program? C#

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Hi everyone.

I hope someone can help.

I have a program with a thread that starts a method called MethodRunner(), which runs the rest of the methods in my program. Everything works fine, but I need a way of stopping the methods if the user clicks an "Abort" button.

I cant seem to get it to work.

my abort button calls RequestStop();

public void RequestStop()
        {
            _shouldStop = true;
        }

and then my thread to run methods...

public void StartThread()
       {
           //Creates and starts the thread
           Thread workerThread = new Thread(MethodRunner);
           workerThread.Start();
       }
       public void MethodRunner()
       {
           while (!_shouldStop)
           {
               //Run Methods
           }
}

As i say the app runs fine, its just the abort button that wont work. Thread.Abort(); works, but it gives an annoying pop up msg, and I've read that its not a good idea to use the abort method.
I thought I might have the while(!_shouldStop) in the wrong place but I've tried moving it elsewhere with no luck.
Chris


Any suggestions?

Thanks very much

Chris