Unable to inherit from a Thread Class in C# ?

Question

The class Thread is a sealed class meaning it cannot be inherited from and I need an instance of a reusable Thread that should inherit from the Thread class. Does anyone have an idea how i can reuse tread ?

Answer 1

A preferable alternative to using Inheritance is to use Composition. Create your class and have a member of type Thread. Then map the methods of your class to call methods from the Thread member and add any other methods you may wish. Example:

public class MyThread 
{
    private Thread thread;
    // constructors

    public void Join()
    {
        thread.Join();
    }

    // whatever else...
}