Effect of IsBackground on .Net Threads?

I know that when the main method is running and the only other threads that are running are background threads then the application exits. O开发者_开发知识库ther than delaying program termination or not, does a backgrounded thread do anything differently or respond differently than a non-backgrounded thread?

No, they are identical to normal threads except they don't prevent a process from terminating.

From MSDN:

Background threads are identical to foreground threads, except that background threads do not prevent a process from terminating.

You can look at the explanation given in this book on Threading http://www.albahari.com/threading/