JavaScript is single threaded - Silverlight is not, but interaction between JavaScript and Silverlight must be performed on the Silverlight UI thread. However, what exactly is the relationship bet...

My application pre-fetches a large number of video frames using asynchronous HttpWebRequest requests. So, if there are 100 frames, the prefetcher will request all 100 frames asynchronously, all at ...

Is it possible for a background thread to enqueue a message to the main UI thread's handler and block until that message has been serviced? The context for this is that I would like my remote ser...

Basically, I am trying to run a seconds counter and a levels counter. For every 10 seconds I want to ++level. But that's not implemented as yet, so far I am just trying to get the seconds to displa...

I have a ProgressBarWindow which has a progressbar and a cancel button on it which I use to report progress on file I/O. However, the UI Thread of the ProgressBarWindow and my main window both hang...

I'm writing a J2ME application. One of the pieces is something that polls the contents of a directory periodically, and, if there are any new things, paints them on the screen. I've done this by ha...

I have a method that is asynchronously called when System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.BeginRead completes. skDelegate = New AsyncCallback(AddressOf skDataReceived) skStream.BeginRead(skBuffer, 0, ...

I would like to create a new event-dispatch thread in Swing, and I'm having trouble finding any references online for how to do this. I have done this in .NET by creating a new thread and calling A...

Here is the problem I have: I need to make sure an object is instantiated on the UI thread. If it is not, it should throw an exception. But how do I check inside a method whether it is running on t...