How To Start And Stop A Continuously Running Background Worker Using A Button

Question

Let\'s say I have a background worker like this:

private void backgroundWorker1_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
        {
             while(true)
          


        

Answer 1

Use the CancelAsync method.

backgroundworker1.CancelAsync();

In your loop inside the worker thread.

if (backgroundWorker.CancellationPending) return;

This doesn't happen immediately.