Here's what I ended up doing:
private AutoResetEvent notifier = new AutoResetEvent(false);
Now the main loop looks like:
foreach (JobInfo ji in jl)
{
if (ji.enabled == "0")
{
args.jobIndex++;
continue;
}
args.jobInfo = ji;
Thread t = new Thread(new ParameterizedThreadStart(startDownload));
t.Start(args);
notifier.WaitOne();
}
private void startDownload(object startArgs)
{
RunArgs args = (RunArgs)startArgs;
try
{
args.jobIndex++;
appLog.Source = args.jobInfo.eventSource;
appLog.WriteEntry(string.Format("Started job {0}...", args.jobInfo.jobName), EventLogEntryType.Information);
args.jobInfo.fullFileName = string.Format(args.jobInfo.reportFileName, string.Format("{0}-{1}-{2}", DateTime.Now.Year.ToString(), DateTime.Now.Month.ToString().PadLeft(2, '0'), DateTime.Now.Day.ToString().PadLeft(2, '0')));
args.jobInfo.fullFileName = string.Format("{0}{1}", args.jobInfo.downloadDirectory, args.jobInfo.fullFileName);
WebClient wc = new WebClient();
wc.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;
wc.DownloadFileCompleted += new AsyncCompletedEventHandler(DownloadCompleted);
wc.DownloadFileAsync(new Uri(args.jobInfo.reportURL), args.jobInfo.fullFileName, args); //Pass the args params to event handler...
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
appLog.WriteEntry(string.Format("Error starting report execution: {0}", ex.Message), EventLogEntryType.Error);
DeleteFile(args.jobInfo.fullFileName);
notifier.Set();
}
}
So now the AutoResetEvent is blocking the main thread but t can successfully trigger the DownloadFileCompleteEvent. And in the DownloadFileCompleted event, I'm obviously doing a notifier.Set() too.
Thanks all!