Visual Studio during Debugging: The function evaluation requires all threads to run

Question

I\'m getting suddenly a strange error while debugging. Up to now the variable in the watch windows has been shown correctly. Now I am getting always the error message in the

Answer 1

You should make thread safe call because accessing Windows form controls are not Thread safe in multithreading. This is my simple code which makes Thread safe call and sets Progress bar.

public partial class Form1 : Form
{// This delegate enables asynchronous calls for setting  
    // the text property on a TextBox control.  
    delegate void StringArgReturningVoidDelegate(string text);
    private Thread demoThread = null;

    public int Progresscount = 0;
    static EventWaitHandle waithandler = new AutoResetEvent(false);
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }
    public static bool CheckForInternetConnection()
    {
        try
        {


            using (var client = new WebClient())
            {
                using (var stream = client.OpenRead("http://www.google.com"))
                {
                    return true;
                }
            }
        }
        catch
        {
            return false;
        }
    }

    public  void Progressincrement()
    {

        waithandler.WaitOne();
        while (CheckForInternetConnection()==true)
        {
            if (Progresscount==100)

            {
                break;
            }
            SetLabel("Connected");
            Progresscount += 1;

       SetProgress(Progresscount.ToString());
            Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
        }
        if (Progresscount <100)
        {
            Startthread();
        }
        SetLabel("Completed");


    }

  public  void Startthread ()
        {

   this.demoThread=   new Thread(new ThreadStart(Progressincrement));
        this.demoThread.Start();
     SetLabel("Waiting for connection");
        while (CheckForInternetConnection() == false) ;

        waithandler.Set();
    }
    private void SetLabel(string text)
    {
        // InvokeRequired required compares the thread ID of the  
        // calling thread to the thread ID of the creating thread.  
        // If these threads are different, it returns true.  
        if (this.label1.InvokeRequired)
        {
            StringArgReturningVoidDelegate d = new StringArgReturningVoidDelegate(SetLabel);
            this.Invoke(d, new object[] { text });
        }
        else
        {
            this.label1.Text = text;
        }
    }
    private void SetProgress(string Value)
    {
        // InvokeRequired required compares the thread ID of the  
        // calling thread to the thread ID of the creating thread.  
        // If these threads are different, it returns true.  
        if (this.progressBar1.InvokeRequired)
        {
            StringArgReturningVoidDelegate d = new StringArgReturningVoidDelegate(SetProgress);
            this.Invoke(d, new object[] {Value});
        }
        else
        {
            this.progressBar1.Value = Convert.ToInt32(Value);
        }
    }

    private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Startthread();
    }

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Responsive");
    }
}

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