VS 2008 BackgroundWorker Thread An Updating UI?
Apr 3, 2010
I'm running some tasks on a BackgroundWorker thread and needed to display the current tasks in a label.Before adding the label, the tasks were completing just fine and the UI was responsive.Once I added the labels, the UI has become unresponsive. The issue, I believe, is the Invoke property.I've declared all my tasks, including the updating, in a sub and am getting the Invoke property of the label each time, in order to set the information.The following is an example of what I'm doing:
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Private Sub Test()If lblTask.InvokeRequired = True Then Dim mi As New MethodInvoker(AddressOf Test) lblTask.Invoke(mi)
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Sep 20, 2009
I'm using the following to check the state of checkboxes and then activate some public subs based on the checked state of the checkboxes:
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Public Sub TestSub() If Me.CheckBox1.InvokeRequired Then Me. CheckBox1.Invoke(New MethodInvoker(AddressOf TestSub)) Else Begin() End If End Sub
Within the Begin sub, I have code that performs specific actions and then updates a ListView with that information.As far as I can tell, the actions are being performed, but the ListView isn't being updated with the info.I'm calling the Test sub from a seperate form, within the BackGroundWorker's DoWork event.Would I have to check the InvokeRequired property of the ListView as well?I'm looking more into the documentation of the BackGroundWorker.
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Aug 24, 2010
i have lurked on these forums before and finally signed up..i have a situation that, after days of searching the web, i have not been able to come up with a solution for.i have to fire off a function that takes a large amount of time (writes to database, creates files, etc etc)this function is a non-shared function of a class. if need be i could make it Shared.[code]the code works great, but what i need to be able to do is update a form with a progress bar as the job is processing.all of the examples i have seen that do this are being called from within a Windows Form and they access the form directly - i cant do that in this case. my form needs to be 1 form for 1 job being executed - can process multiple jobs at one time and thus i need multiple forms.i have tried making the form part of my delegate class but since it runs in the same thread the effect is it "freezes" until the job is complete.i have just started looking into using a background worker but again, all examples i have seen use the component as part of a form - that wont work for me.
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Apr 17, 2012
I have some classes right now that I have that I reuse for Client/Server programming. I'm using Thread in these classes though for monitoring for things being written to the network streams and stuff like that. I'm just not sure if I should be using the background worker class instead. I'm also using TCPClient and Listener classes, should I be using sockets directly? I guess it would all depend on the flexibility I would need in a given application's specs.
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Nov 30, 2009
I'm trying to add information to a ListView from a BackgroundWorker thread. I thought I could do this in this manner:
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Private Delegate Sub _ListView(ByVal lvi As ListViewItem)
Public Sub test(ByVal lvi As ListViewItem)
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When I attempt to run the "test" sub the BackgroundWorker, I get an error:
Argument not specified for parameter 'lvi' of 'Public Syb test(lvi as System.Windows.Forms.ListViewItem)'.
Is there something I need to specify when declaring the sub, or in the sub itself?
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Sep 8, 2009
I have a form with Check Boxes on it and a second form that holds functions and a Backgroundworker.When a button is pressed on the first form, the second form loads and then runs the functions that relate to the appropriate Check Boxes.Doing it this way causes the second form to become inaccessible. I decided to run my code in the Backgroundworker's DoWork event and then call the RunWorkerAsync method in my form's Activated event. Before using the Backgroundworker, everything worked fine and now it doesn't.I assume the issue is with the Backgroundworker not being able to access controls on another thread.In debug mode,it automatically throws an exception, but doesn't error out when using the Release version, making me assume it's a legal call. But, if it's a legal call, then why can't I access the controls?
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Jul 1, 2010
A BackgroundWorker thread can pass data to the primary thread. It does it via the RunWorkerCompleted and ProgressChanged events, which I believe run in the primary thread. I would like to encapsulate the BackgroundWorker control in a class so that I can instantiate it more than once. But I don't know how the BGW can then communicate with the primary thread. If the BGW control is within a class, it does not have access to the properties outside the class. In that case, how can the BGW pass data to the thread that instantiated it?
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Aug 4, 2011
I'm working with BackgroundWorker, I want the BackgroundWorker do the retrieval process of data from database while the user can still do another task on the form. The problem is, after retrieving the data, I can't seem to access the ListView in my Form from the DoWork event of BackgroundWorker, I will populate that ListView using the data I've retrieved.
Consider this example, this is how I'm doing it:
Public Class Test
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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Sep 4, 2009
How do run processes synchronously from a thread or backgroundworker thread? Is it even possible?We have program that allows the user to download several files from a remote server, compress them, and then email the files.It has several long running processes that must run in order. We want these to run on a separate thread so as not to make the form unresponsive. Does a way exist to do this? We attempted a rather clumsy way of approaching this problem by using background worker threads. When each thread is completed and returned back to RunWorkerCompleted, we start another background worker thread and repeat the the next process. It works somewhat but seems to take a lot of resources to run.
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Sep 1, 2009
I'm not sure exactly how to describe this. In VB6, there was a Timer command. I could create a variable of type Timer and loop until the current value for Timer exceeded the initial plus a given amount of time. This allowed me to update form variables while the timing loop was executing. How can I do something similar in .NET?
Here is a sample of the VB6 code:
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Dim StartTimer As Double
StartTimer = Timer
Do
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Oct 18, 2011
I have a small problem that I am sure is due mostly to my inexperience with threading. I have used simple entirely self-contained threads before, but not to a great extent. I understand the basic laws that surround them, such as how a thread cannot access another thread's member directly, and must use delegates.
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May 2, 2009
I am using a class with below code, the question is how to update the label's value at UI thread from the backgroundworker?
Imports MySql.Data.MySqlClient
Public Class clsBackGroundWorker
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Jan 27, 2010
im sorry if this has been asked before.but i couldent find it in my first look i have a form that runs a query on a mysql database but as it runs the query the form stops responding till it finishes sooo i had the smart idea of putting it in a back ground worker..
GREAT i thot i had it working it all seemed to go greeat then i noticed when i try to change the label text on the form to corispond to the info it got... it wont work it give me a cross threading error....
how to cross thread between the back ground worker and the origial form..
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Jul 29, 2009
I wanna sleep a second thread of BackgroundWorker. I tried to use Me.Dispatcher.Thread.Sleep(500) in DoWork event, but it fails.
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Mar 9, 2011
I've got a VB2008 application that can potentially generate a table with up to 540 columns. The table is then used as the DataSource for a DataGridView. With column counts in the hundreds the processing time can by over a minute. With all this in single threaded Form code the UI locks up until the DataGridView is loaded. I've taken time stamps of the process to find out where the majority of time is spent.
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Apr 27, 2011
I am writing an 'Admin Console' that accesses hMailServer via its provided COM interface. I am using Visual Basic 2010 Express. In one procedure, it scans for the whole accounts. Because it's a lengthy procedure, I shove it into a set of BackgroundWorker threads.
First result: A maximum of 19 simultaneous threads, with 36 seconds total time.Then I rewrote a time consuming thread initialization code segment, and managed to reduce the time required to approximately 14 seconds... but the thread count now hit 330 threads!Will that huge amount of threads be detrimental? E.g., causing out-of-memory exceptions &c. ?
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Jan 2, 2012
I am using the BackgroundWorker to do the heavy tasks so the UI thread doesn't get blocked. While the BackgroundWorker can send values to the UI thread using the progress-scheme, how can the BackgroundWorker get some values FROM the UI thread?
Either by asking it or simply by the UI thread sending some values to the BackgroundWorker?
Just accessing a variable of the UI thread like UIForm.x within the BackgroundWorker does not work, it does not seem to have access to the UI variables?
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Aug 29, 2010
I have a background worker that's checking the status of four services on a remote server.This is setup on a timer (5 Seconds) as below. For some reason it's hanging the UI thread causing the application to 'lock' for a second each tick, I cannot work out why?!
Private Sub ServiceTimer_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ServiceTimer.Tick
_ServiceBGWorker = New System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker()
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Mar 29, 2010
Well to simplify it, whenever I use sendkeys from a background thread it just doesn't work. I even created a textbox, button, and backgroundworker with the following code:
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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Jun 13, 2010
Yes, I see what you mean. But I had to do it that because I tried to do it this way:
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but its says "Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'RichTextBox1' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on."
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Oct 24, 2009
What is the difference between creating a thead using BackgroundWorker and creating a thread using System.Threading.Thread?
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Jun 10, 2012
I have an application that interacts with third party COM objects. A method of the COM object that I call will sometimes stop responding. I created a Backgroundworker thread to call the function and I am trying to monitor it from my main thread to kill it if it hangs. I have additional code (not supplied) that tracks the processing time using system.timer from the main thread and I raise an event if it exceeds my threshold (this part is fine). This is when I want to kill the thread and stop code execution. The problem is.. if I use the cancelasync method it will just pend since the code execution is stuck on the function call.
The particular function call in the code snippet that hangs is "objCOM.SendDataToServer()". It typically takes 1-3 seconds to return, but if it gets no response it will just hang indefinitely and won't return at all (no errors just hangs).. there is no timeout... and since I don't have access to the source function I cannot supply one. I tried the .dispose() method of the thread, but apparently that doesn't kill it and neither does cancelasync. I just need help figuring out how to KILL this thread so I can reset the server connection and call the function again.
Public Class COMobject
Private objCOM as new acs.manager
Public Sub CallComFunction()
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Mar 22, 2010
A winforms dialog is using BackgroundWorker to perform some asynchronous operations with significant success. On occasion, the async process being run by the background worker will need to raise events to the winforms app for user response (a message that asks the user if they wish to cancel), the response of which captured in an CancelEventArgs type of the event.
Being an implementation of threading, I would have expected the RaiseEvent of the worker to fire, and then the worker would continue, hence requiring me to pause the worker until the response is received. Instead however, the worker is held to wait for the code executed by the raise event to complete.
It seems like method I am calling via the event call is actually on the worker thread used by the background worker, and I am surprised, since I expected to see it on the Main Thread which is where the mainform is running. Also surprisingly, there are no cross thread exceptions thrown.
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Sep 23, 2009
Is it possible to create a WebBrowser control in a background thread in BackgroundWorker?
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_DoWork(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.DoWork
Using web1 As New WebBrowser[code].....
Does anyone know a way to create a background WebBrowser? I would like to do it to extract info from websites then spit out the various HTML DOM arrays
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Jul 5, 2011
I have a backgroundworker that is downloading data from different webpages and process them to a datagridview.I get the Cross-thread operation not valid error on the first For loop.
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_DoWork(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.DoWork
dim i as integer
tot = (numPostnrTo.Value - numPostnrFrom.Value) / 10
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Nov 15, 2011
I have a VB.NET 2010 app that uses a backgroundworker to process MS Word docs. All of the code does what it is supposed to do, except when my code calls ReportProgress(). The UI cannot process the ProgressChanged event fast enough before the values in the class that are passed are changed. I know this because I inserted a System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100) line after each ReportProgress() call which allows time for the UI to make the updates properly. I guess I am looking for a better solution thanThread.Sleep(100) since this adds to the amount of time it takes to process all of the files. Here are some snippets of code that I am using:
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Jan 26, 2012
I have build a VB.Net windows application which does uploads data into database and basically updates two controls:
1. A textbox which is constantly updated with one line per database record upload.
2. A label which keeps track of the count of database record uploaded.
I have used BackgroundWorker thread concept, where the thread's bgwWorker_DoWork() method contains the business logic for upload and bgwWorker_ ProgressChanged() updates the 2 UI controls based on uploads.But the issue I am facing is that I do not get complete updates on both the UI controls. Sometimes the thread bypasses update of textbox and sometimes of label. I could resolve this issue by adding System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(25) before each UI control update code.[code]
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Dec 10, 2011
I am currently trying to develop an application which will backup large folders to a specified destination. To find all the files in the specified 'backup' directory I am using the following code.
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I have tried putting my GetFilesRecursive function into a separate background worker to run first so I can update the GUI however I am struggling on how to return the List of found files back to my application (I get cross-threading exception) and how to update the progress bar to show the progress of the GetFileRecursive function so the user knows it is processing the list of files and has not crashed/frozen.
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Dec 14, 2011
We have an issue with an application where we are making a call to an asynchronous process on LostFocus of a TextBox, the asyncronous process then needs to be able to update the main form UI (or display a dialog from the main form UI) while running asynchronously.We have thought about call backs and having it truely asynchronous but we need everything to execute in the correct order and this is for a data entry system where speed and accuracy of data entry is important.Example code shows what we are trying to do and if you switch to Begin Invoke the order of processing is not correct.[code]Does anyone know how we can invoke something else on the main form thread while is is still busy processing the LostFocus event?
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Aug 25, 2011
The program i am writing has 5 features, all of which i want to run in their own threads. On the main for I have a listView which contains all the accounts (user password etc). The thread is defined as:
Public fbaThread As New Thread(New ThreadStart(AddressOf fba_Start))
In cmdAdderStart i begin the new thread by:
fbaRun = True
fbaThread.Start()
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I have managed to write the UpdateDebug() to update my txtDebug on the main form. But now I am having trouble being able to pull the values from lvAccounts.items().subitems I can accomplish this with global variables but i'm sure this is not the best way to do this.
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