Is Delegate.EndInvoke() really necessary?

Question

I\'ve read a couple of forums and even a stackoverflow question or two saying that Delegate.EndInvoke is necessary when using Delegate.BeginInvoke. Many of the articles I\'

Answer 1

From the Windows Form documentation on Control.BeginInvoke()

You can call EndInvoke to retrieve the return value from the delegate, if neccesary, but this is not required. EndInvoke will block until the return value can be retrieved.

This is the particular case of Windows Form async call on the UI thread and this this doesn't apply to the general case, yet this can help for those in this situation.