I'm testing my app with mono in prevision of a Linux port, and I have a threading problem. I initially considered pasting 3000 code lines here, but finally I've devised a small minimal example ;) ...

In Silverlight 4 I have a custom service class which has an asynchronous Completed event. Inside the Completed event I take the returned data and invoke a populate method via something like this: ...

In my WPF application, I want to do some work in a non-UI thread so as to avoid the UI from become not-responding. For that I did this: var caller = new AsyncMethodCaller<Pattern>(this...

Two questions on the callback pattern with AsyncCallback and IAsyncResult. I changed the question with a code example: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespac...

I have an event delegate that is defined as follows: public delegate void CallbackDelegate(Data data); public event CallbackDelegate OnDataComplete; I raise the event asynchronously: // Raise t...

I want to raise a series of events from my library class, but I'm worried that some event subscribers will be rude and take a long time to process some events, thus blocking the thread that is rais...

Sometimes when Delegate.BeginInvoke is invoked, it takes more than one second to execute the delegate method. What could be the reasons for the delay? I get this issue 1 or 2 times a day in an ap...

I need a way to perform some action synchronously which should complete in half a second, but might just hang around for minutes. If it times out I don't care about the result. Here's the I'm doing...

In order to avoid freezing of GUI, I wanted to run method connecting to DB asynchronously. Therefore I have written this: DelegatLoginu dl = ConnectDB; IAsyncResult ar = dl.BeginInvoke(null, null...

Consider the code: class Work { public void DoStuff(string s) { Console.WriteLine(s); // .. whatever } } class Master { private readonly Work work = new Work(); public void Execute() { s...

I've inherited code where BeginInvoke is called from the main thread (not a background thread, which is usually the pattern). I am trying to understand what it actually does in this scenario. Doe...

Greetings, I am developing some application in C#. At the moment I'm dealing with threading and I have a question that I have in my mind. What is the difference between Invoke and BeginInvoke? I r...

I need to know whether Control.BeginInvoke and Control.Invoke calls will execute in the order they are called. I have the following scenario: UI thread is blocked WCF thread calls Control.BeginI...

Is it possible to use Control.BeginInvoke in anything other than a "fire & forget" manner? I want to change the following request to delegate a callback method so that i can do something when e...

This page in the MS documentation, covering asynchrony in Windows Forms applications, states: You can call EndInvoke to retrieve the return value from the delegate, if neccesary, but this is no...

Here's my old code from WinForms: private void ValueChanged(double inValue1, double inValue2) { //only manual mode for this driver, so that's easy. if (ValueLabel.InvokeRequired) { ValueLabel....

On a web page, I am calling a third party who does not allow me to set timeout programatically. I call BeginInvoke and use the AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne to wait a specified amount of time. If the ca...

Can anyone tell me why this code behaves the way it does? See comments embedded in the code... Am I missing something really obvious here? using System; namespace ConsoleApplication3 { public cl...