Top "Backgroundworker" questions

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

How to wait correctly until BackgroundWorker completes?

Observe the following piece of code: var handler = GetTheRightHandler(); var bw = new BackgroundWorker(); bw.RunWorkerCompleted += OnAsyncOperationCompleted; bw.DoWork += OnDoWorkLoadChildren; bw.…

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How to "kill" background worker completely?

I am writing a windows application that runs a sequence of digital IO actions repeatedly. This sequence of actions starts …

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How to wait for BackgroundWorker to finish and then exit console application

I have written a sample console application to test backgroundworker using one of the examples posted here in Stackoverflow. I …

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Running a method in BackGroundWorker and Showing ProgressBar

What I want is when some method is doing some task UI keeps itself active and I want to show …

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This BackgroundWorker is currently busy and cannot run multiple tasks concurrently

I get this error if I click a button that starts the backgroundworker twice. This BackgroundWorker is currently busy and …

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Displaying wait cursor in while backgroundworker is running

During the start of my windows application, I have to make a call to a web service to retrieve some …

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How to make BackgroundWorker return an object

I need to make RunWorkerAsync() return a List<FileInfo>. How can I return an object from a background …

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Spawn Multiple Threads for work then wait until all finished

just want some advice on "best practice" regarding multi-threading tasks. as an example, we have a C# application that upon …

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How to stop BackgroundWorker on Form's Closing event?

I have a form that spawns a BackgroundWorker, that should update form's own textbox (on main thread), hence Invoke((Action) (...)); …

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Unhandled exceptions in BackgroundWorker

I have a small WinForms app that utilizes a BackgroundWorker object to perform a long-running operation. The background operation throws …

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