Newbie threading question

[xtech1005]

hello,

I have a c# windows service that is working fine but I don't fully understand how the threading works. A new MTAThread is created and started. The method it is assigned to runs a couple of queries and at the end it calls Thread.Sleep (10000). At the end of this wait period the process repeats.

But, I don't understand what makes it go back to the beginning of the method and start over. There isn't any reset or any other call to make this happen.

Here is a snippet of the method:

private void updateTags()
{
//DB work done here...
Thread.Sleep(10000)
}

What could make this routine repeat itself?

thanks,
steve

[tlhintoq]

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[tlhintoq]

Nothing is a thread.sleep call will cause a repeat.
Beyond that, there is nothing else in your post to go on.

I would guess that an event is mapped to the method, so every time 'x' happens the method is called.

Or a loop exists elsewhere that is calling this method repeatedly.

[xtech1005]

Thanks tlhintoq,

That was my main concern was whether something in the thread itself would cause it to repeat. I'll go back and look again through the rest of the code.

Also, thanks for the tip about using tags. I'll use them in future posts.

Thanks!

[xtech1005]

Thanks for the additional information.

I found what causes the looping after Thread.Sleep and I'm embarrased to say.

The routine is acutally wrapped in a while loop but it wasn't obvious when I first looked over the code. It is a code sample for an activeX that I bought to build an opc server. Since I'm not real familiar with threading I first thought it had something to do with that.

Thanks for everyone's input. cheers!

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