Top "Backgroundworker" questions

BackgroundWorker is a helper class in .NET's System.

The calling thread cannot access this object because a different thread owns it

My code is as below public CountryStandards() { InitializeComponent(); try { FillPageControls(); } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Country Standards", MessageBoxButton.…

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How to stop BackgroundWorker correctly

I have a form with 2 comboboxes on it. And I want to fill combobox2.DataSource based on combobox1.Text and …

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How to use a BackgroundWorker?

I know it has 3 methods. In my program I have a method to send a message. It is often late …

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How to use WPF Background Worker

In my application I need to perform a series of initialization steps, these take 7-8 seconds to complete during which …

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Sending Arguments To Background Worker?

Let's say I want to sent an int parameter to a background worker, how can this be accomplished? private void …

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BackgroundWorker vs background Thread

I have a stylistic question about the choice of background thread implementation I should use on a windows form app. …

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File Copy with Progress Bar

I used this code: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.IO; …

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How to update GUI with backgroundworker?

I have spent the whole day trying to make my application use threads but with no luck. I have read …

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Async/await vs BackgroundWorker

In the past few days I have tested the new features of .net 4.5 and c# 5. I like its new async/…

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How to wait for a BackgroundWorker to cancel?

Consider a hypothetical method of an object that does stuff for you: public class DoesStuff { BackgroundWorker _worker = new BackgroundWorker(); ... public …

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