Aborting a TcpListener listening thread

If you develop an application using TcpListenner. You normally launch a new thread (listenThread) to listen incoming sockets. So you use TcpListener.AcceptTcpClient inside a loop. Then you might call listenThread.Abort to abort the listenning thread if you need to abort the thread.

The problem with this approach is that listenThread.Abort doesn't throw a ThreadAbortException whileTcpListener.AcceptTcpClient is blocking. I know two solutions.

One is to set the listening thread as a background thread. This only works if you only abort the listening thread while you abort the app.

The other one is to keep a global TcpListener object and call TcpListener.Stop when you want to abort the thread. A SocketException with ErrorCode 10004 will be thrown. The app breaks the loop when encountering this error code.

Any better solutions?