Threading Declaration Issues

Question

I'm using this code

Thread T = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Listen));
T.IsBackground = true;
T.Start();

And its returning these errors;

[Line 2] Invalid token '=' in class, struct, or interface member declaration [Line 3] Invalid token '(' in class, struct, or interface member declaration

Can someone shed some light on whats going wrong here because I don't really know what is.

Answer 1

You're writing those 3 lines inside a class, and not inside a method of that class.

This will produce that error:

public class Dummy
{
    Thread T = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Listen));
    T.IsBackground = true;
    T.Start();

    ...
}

This will not:

public class Dummy
{
    public void Test()
    {
        Thread T = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Listen));
        T.IsBackground = true;
        T.Start();
    }

    ...
}