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Backgrounder Description

A simple way to run background tasks from Windows.Forms

Make backgrounding tasks under Windows.Forms simple and easy.

Window Messages

The background thread listens for window messages. A NativeWindow created on the background thread can intercept incoming messages for it's Handle in it's override of WndProc(). Window messages can be sent from the background thread using standard PostMessage() et al.

Timers

If you can live with polling rather than pushing updates to the GUI, using a System.Windows.Forms.Timer (not System.Threading.Timer) to peform GUI updates is also a good solution. It can be used as an alternative to backgrounder, or as a complementary ingredient.

With a System.Windows.Forms.Timer, WM_TIMER messages are injected by the operating system into the foreground / UI thread at regular intervals, at which point an event handler can take over. The event handler can check shared variables set by code running in the background and update the GUI.

An advantage of using Windows.Forms timers is that it's very easy to control the rate of GUI updates and thus performance. A disadvantage of using Windows.Forms timers is that you have to manually marshal data from background to foreground, and this can get somewhat tongue-in-cheek if you're using complex data structures.

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