Threads and Sharepoint

When you are using threads on sharepoint, you should take care of some little things : The method used to launch the thread must have the “[STAThread]” attribute, it avoids some huge memory leaks. If you need to use an SPSite from the calling site, you should copy its URL and UserToken to build a new SPSite in the new thread. If you’re not using that “design pattern”, things will get really wrong. And of course you should dispose any sharepoint SPSite (SPWebs come from SPSite) allocated within the thread.

February 20, 2010 · Florent Clairambault