Top "Message-pump" questions

What is a message pump?

In this thread (posted about a year ago) there is a discussion of problems that can come with running Word …

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Pumping Windows Messages During Long Operation?

I'm getting the following message on a big operation that I'm running: The CLR has been unable to transition from …

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Message pump in .NET Windows service

I have a Windows Service written in C# that handles all of our external hardware I/O for a kiosk …

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Exceptions silently caught by Windows, how to handle manually?

We're having problems with Windows silently eating exceptions and allowing the application to continue running, when the exception is thrown …

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Visual Basic.NET: how to create a thread to update the UI

The usual VB way to handle a computationally heavy task is to put it in a background worker thread, while …

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Run multiple UI Threads

Skip to the bottom for the question; this is just some extra info I am using a component (GeckoFX) to …

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Python - pythoncom.PumpMessages()

I'm surprised to see that there is not a lot of explained documentation on the function pythoncom.PumpMessages(), or for …

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How to forward messages (eg. mouse wheel) to another Control without stealing focus and without P/Invoke?

I want to forward a message (such as WM_MOUSEWHEEL) when I'm over this control with the mouse, without stealing …

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Message pump in a console application

I have a fairly simple console application written in .NET. Sometimes the application is run in batch mode without an …

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How to make a program not show up in Alt-Tab or on the taskbar

I have a program that needs to sit in the background and when a user connects to a RDP session …

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