Cross-thread operation not valid [duplicate]

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Cross-thread operation not valid: Control accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on

Okay, I know why this is giving me this error:

Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'Form1' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on.

But... How can I make this workable?

System.Threading.Thread t = new System.Threading.Thread(()=>
{
   // do really hard work and then...
   listView1.Items.Add(lots of items);
   lots more UI work
});
t.Start();

I don't care when, or how the Thread finishes, so I don't really care about anything fancy or over complicated atm, unless it'll make things much easier when working with the UI in a new Thread.

This has been asked many times before. Check this out: stackoverflow.com/questions/1523878/… or stackoverflow.com/questions/1485786/… or stackoverflow.com/questions/1377529/… or stackoverflow.com/questions/1397370/… or stackoverflow.com/questions/4010602/… or stackoverflow.com/questions/3439065/… — Joe
– Joe, Commented Feb 18, 2011 at 4:05
+1 @blue, yeah there seems to be a whole class of similar questions regarding this all asked in a slightly different way but with the same core idea that UI operations must be performed on the same thread. — Joe
– Joe, Commented Feb 18, 2011 at 4:17

Adam Rackis · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-18 04:05:16Z

27

You can't. UI operations must be performed on the owning thread. Period.

What you could do, is create all those items on a child thread, then call Control.Invoke and do your databinding there.

Or use a BackgroundWorker

    BackgroundWorker bw = new BackgroundWorker();
    bw.DoWork += (s, e) => { /* create items */ };
    bw.RunWorkerCompleted += (s, e) => { /* databind UI element*/ };

    bw.RunWorkerAsync();

answered Feb 18, 2011 at 4:05

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Matt Over a year ago

Solid answer, but I'm curious about why "You can't" is true. Do you have any further reading?

Alireza Noori · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-19 00:24:45Z

15

When you access the from's property from another thread, this exception is thrown. To work around this problem there's at least 2 options.

Telling Control to don't throw these exceptions (which is not recommended):

Control.CheckForIllegalCrossThreadCalls = false;

Using threadsafe functions:

private void ThreadSafeFunction(int intVal, bool boolVal)
{
    if (this.InvokeRequired)
    {
        this.Invoke(
            new MethodInvoker(
            delegate() { ThreadSafeFunction(intVal, boolVal); }));
    }
    else
    {
        //use intval and boolval
    }
}

edited Dec 19, 2012 at 0:24

answered Feb 19, 2011 at 23:34

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