How to stop BackgroundWorker on Form's Closing event?

Question

I have a form that spawns a BackgroundWorker, that should update form\'s own textbox (on main thread), hence Invoke((Action) (...)); call.
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Answer 1

Here was my solution (Sorry it's in VB.Net).

When I run the FormClosing event I run BackgroundWorker1.CancelAsync() to set the CancellationPending value to True. Unfortunately, the program never really gets a chance to check the value CancellationPending value to set e.Cancel to true (which as far as I can tell, can only be done in BackgroundWorker1_DoWork). I didn't remove that line, although it doesn't really seem to make a difference.

I added a line that would set my global variable, bClosingForm, to True. Then I added a line of code in my BackgroundWorker_WorkCompleted to check both e.Cancelled as well as the global variable, bClosingForm, before performing any ending steps.

Using this template, you should be able to close your form out at any time even if the backgroundworker is in the middle of something (which might not be good, but it's bound to happen so it might as well be dealt with). I'm not sure if it's necessary, but you could dispose the Background worker entirely in the Form_Closed event after this all takes place.

Private bClosingForm As Boolean = False

Private Sub SomeFormName_FormClosing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventArgs) Handles Me.FormClosing
    bClosingForm = True
    BackgroundWorker1.CancelAsync() 
End Sub

Private Sub backgroundWorker1_DoWork(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.DoWork
    'Run background tasks:
    If BackgroundWorker1.CancellationPending Then
        e.Cancel = True
    Else
        'Background work here
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_RunWorkerCompleted(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.RunWorkerCompleted
    If Not bClosingForm Then
        If Not e.Cancelled Then
            'Completion Work here
        End If
    End If
End Sub