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How to stop BackgroundWorker on Form's Closing event?

Asked 2009-11-13T19:32:30.730
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I have a form that spawns a BackgroundWorker, that should update form's own textbox (on main thread), hence Invoke((Action) (...)); call.
If in HandleClosingEvent I just do bgWorker.CancelAsync() then I get ObjectDisposedException on Invoke(...) call, understandably. But if I sit in HandleClosingEvent and wait for bgWorker to be done, than .Invoke(...) never returns, also understandably.

Any ideas how do I close this app without getting the exception, or the deadlock?

Following are 3 relevant methods of the simple Form1 class:

    public Form1() {
        InitializeComponent();
        Closing += HandleClosingEvent;
        this.bgWorker.RunWorkerAsync();
    }

    private void backgroundWorker1_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e) {
        while (!this.bgWorker.CancellationPending) {
            Invoke((Action) (() => { this.textBox1.Text = Environment.TickCount.ToString(); }));
        }
    }

    private void HandleClosingEvent(object sender, CancelEventArgs e) {
        this.bgWorker.CancelAsync();
        /////// while (this.bgWorker.CancellationPending) {} // deadlock
    }
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I'd pass in the SynchronizationContext associated with the textbox to the BackgroundWorker and use that to perform Updates on the UI thread. Using SynchronizationContext.Post, you can check if the control is disposed or disposing.

answered 2009-11-13T19:48:08.253
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What about Me.IsHandleCreated?

    Private Sub BwDownload_RunWorkerCompleted(sender As Object, e As System.ComponentModel.RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs) Handles BwDownload.RunWorkerCompleted
    If Me.IsHandleCreated Then
        'Form is still open, so proceed
    End If
End Sub
answered 2013-08-01T10:48:15.350

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