Can someone please break down a simple statement for a relative newbie?

Thread firstThread = new Thread (new ThreadStart (Method1));

In other words, what is happening at each stage here:

new ThreadStart (Method1)

new Thread (new ThreadStart (Method1))

Thread firstThread = new Thread (new ThreadStart (Method1));

Thanks for any help you can give.

Assuming you understand exactly what a thread is:

"new Thread()" simply creates a new thread in memory

a thread however without any code to execute is pretty useless and that is all the "ThreadStart" object is. It's just a delegate that you create to pass the thread a method from your code.

This way your method runs in its own thread - simutaneous to the rest of your code.

So after all that statement is done there - you just start the thread and whatever method you've passed it will start executing "in the background" as it were.