When you’re trying to create a WinForm Application that is working asynchronously, you’ll probably in a common failure:
System.InvalidOperationException occurred
Message="Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'MainForm' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on."
Source="System.Windows.Forms"
You’ll get this failure, because it’s not allowed to update a UI control from another thread than the thread that has created the control.
A fluent way around this is to use the MethodInvoker class.
Let’s asume that you have a statement like the following one:
appForm.Text = appInfo;
Using the MethodInvoker class would look like:
appForm.Invoke(new MethodInvoker(() => { appForm.Text = appInfo; }));
That’s still a one-liner;-) And with that small hint, you’ll get around such annoying exceptions.
Hope you enoy it.
Cheers
- Gerhard
PS: Here’s also a great article about the MethodInvoker.
