Threading Question : How to implement this

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Hello,

I have a Winform app that has a backgroundWorker thread and does all operations via that only.

After completing one particular operation i.e. to connect to the server, I want to create a monitor to check the connectivity with the server is alive or not. A web service will be executed to find out the connectivity and check the results to know. If not reconnect it. I believe I should create a thread for monitoring connectivity. The logic is like : After each X secs monitor checks the connectivity, again comes back after X secs and again does its job i.e check connectivity and know the status. I don't think their is any need to block the thread as I can react whenever I get the results. I also don't need to deal with any UI inside this process. Might only need once I find the connectivity is lost, then have to call for other function that reconnects and this thread again restarts or something like that.

To be very frank, I am week in Threading. I read the 2-3 tutorials, but can't make out how to implement this. Can anyone please give me some hint/idea to implement the above.

Implemented Code of Form :

private void backgroundWorker1_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
    if (currentState == OPENING)
        LoadAfterLogin();
    else if (currentState == CONNECTING)  
         Connect();    // CONNECTS TO THE SERVER
}

private void backgroundWorker1_ProgressChanged(object sender, ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
{
   ......
   else if (value == CONNECTED)
   {
    currentState = CONNECTED;
    statusLabel.Text = "CONNECTED Successfully to server";
    //  HERE MONITOR THREAD SHOULD BE STARTED ONCE APP KNOWS FOR SURE, THAT IT IS CONNECTED TO SERVER
    monitorConn = new MonitorConnection();
   } else if (value == EXP)
   {
        currentState = ERR_CONNECTING;
        ExceptionData ed = (ExceptionData)e.UserState;
        .....
   }
}  

////////////////////////////////////////
ANOTHER MonitorConnection thread class 

public class MonitorConnection : Thread
{
    private DateTime startTime, lastCheckedTime;
    private bool conneced;
    private int intervalDuration, nextTime;

    public MonitorConnection()
    {
        intervalDuration = 10000;
    }


    public bool IsConneced
    {
        get { return conneced; }
        set { conneced = value; }
    }

    // SHOULD CALL THIS WHEN THE THREAD IS STARTED
    public void start()
    {
        startTime = DateTime.Now;
        nextTime = DateTime.Now;
    }

    // THIS SHOULD BE SOMEHOW CALLED BY run()
    public void checkConnection()
    {
        // IS CURRENT TIME IS >= SCHEDULED NEXTTIME
        if (DateTime.Now >= nextTime) {
            // Checks if the connection to server is alive or not
            conneced = UltimateLibrary.http.HTTPUtility.isConnectionAvailable();
            lastCheckedTime = DateTime.Now;
            nextTime = lastCheckedTime + intervalDuration;
        }

    }

}

Here is the code that have implemetned to show the logic that I want to achieve. I agree and know the code is not fully to its mark. There still needs changes to make it proper by not blocking, running on continous intervals and so on. I think some other class than Thread should be extended (not sure which one will be appropriate).

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks