Attaching Continuation Tasks to the UI Thread

added by BlackWasp

1/4/2012 10:30:27 AM

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Parallel tasks can be used in Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation applications to run slow processes without blocking the user interface thread. However, this presents a problem, as both systems prevent other threads from updating controls.

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dpeterson

1/4/2012 10:29:59 AM

This is much cleaner than the BackgroundWorker approach I usually take.

BlackWasp

1/4/2012 2:29:02 PM

I think so too. It's only available in .NET 4.0 though so earlier versions still need to use BackgroundWorkers or spawn new threads.