Reputation: 196781
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:
Upvotes: 4
Views: 310
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