I'm trying to make a working program from this example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741870.aspx . I think I'm almost done, but I can't who shold be calling the Dispatcher : what should i use instead of tomorrow.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke ? I think I should put the UI thread, but how can i do that?
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Threading;
namespace TestDelegate
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
private delegate void NoArgDelegate();
private delegate void OneArgDelegate(String arg);
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// Change the status image and start the rotation animation.
button1.Enabled = false;
button1.Text = "Contacting Server";
// Start fetching the weather forecast asynchronously.
NoArgDelegate fetcher = new NoArgDelegate(
this.FetchWeatherFromServer);
fetcher.BeginInvoke(null, null);
}
private void FetchWeatherFromServer()
{
Thread.Sleep(4000);
// Schedule the update function in the UI thread.
tomorrow.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(
System.Threading.ThreadPriority.Normal,
new OneArgDelegate(UpdateUserInterface),
weather);
}
private void UpdateUserInterface(String weather)
{
//Update UI text
button1.Enabled = true;
button1.Text = "Fetch Forecast";
}
}
}
In Windows Forms you can just use
this.BeginInvoke(...)
.It is a method of
Control
class, andForm
derives fromControl
.The problem is in the referencing,
Dispatcher
as introduced in .NET framework 3 and up is located in theSystem.Windows.Threading
namespace and not inSystem.Threading
.The
System.Windows
namespace is available in WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) projects.How about
this.Dispatcher.Invoke(...)
?