How to run method in separate thread

Question

i found a very good piece of code which run all method in separate thread. the code as follows

private static void Method1()
{
    //Method1 implementation
}

private static void Method2()
{
    //Method2 implementation
}

private static void RunMethodInSeparateThread(Action action)
{
    var thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(action));
    thread.Start();
}

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    RunMethodInSeparateThread(Method1);
    RunMethodInSeparateThread(Method2);
}

in this case how could i pass parameter to method and also there could be situation where Method1 may need 2 parameter and where Method2 may need 3 parameter. in this situation how to construct RunMethodInSeparateThread in generic way which will accept many param and pass to the method. please help me with code. thanks

Answer 1

To run some code in another thread you could do:

new Thread(delegate () {
    Method1(param1, param2);
}).Start();

You could accept a collection of parameters or a dictionary for your methods that need to accept a variable number of parameters. Or you could create separate methods that allow a different number of parameters. For example:

private static void Method1()
{
    //Method1 implementation
}

private static void Method1(int Param1)
{
    //Method1 implementation
}

private static void Method1(int Param1, int Param2)
{
    //Method1 implementation
}

Answer 2

With .NET 4, your RunMethodInSeparateThread method seems a bit redundant in my opinion. I would just do this:

Task.Factory.StartNew(() => { Method1(param1); });
Task.Factory.StartNew(() => { Method2(param1, param2); });