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leora
leora

Reputation: 196781

Threading in .net

I have a simple example of a winforms application where i choose a directory in a directory chooser and click a button to loop through the directory and copy each file in the directory into another directory.

i want to do the file copy on a background thread to avoid locking the GUI.

i am looking for the simplest solution to:

  1. Create the background thread
  2. Pass the source and destinations in
  3. Get a callback on progress so i can show a progress bar on the GUI thread

Upvotes: 4

Views: 310

Answers (2)

Craig Shearer
Craig Shearer

Reputation: 14531

In addition to the above answer, I'd add that the BackgroundWorker is ideal for this as it can give you progress updates too. Just make sure you prevent reentry - that is you need to prevent the situation where the user could start the background worker again before it has completed.

Upvotes: 2

Mitch Wheat
Mitch Wheat

Reputation: 300749

I would recommend using the BackgroundWorker class.

Example.

Upvotes: 7

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