I have a windows service (I know, wrong group but I couldn't find a windows
service group) loads an individual record from a db to do some work.
I use a thread to do this because it is possible for a large number of
requests to come through at the same, or close to the same time. Part of the
function involves me updating  a clients database via a web-service. Since
this can be slow at times I don't want to serialize the requests, hence the
threads.

The threading seems to work fine. The processes 'spin off' and run
concurrently. I don't ever 'kill' the thread. How does it know when to
end/turn itself off? I assume it does... but I'd hate to get really busy and
find out I was wrong...

Thanks.

I do my threading like this:

tp = New ThreadedProcessor
thisThread = New Thread(AddressOf tp.ReturnCSRRequests)
thisThread.Start()