How to wait correctly until BackgroundWorker completes?

Question

Observe the following piece of code:

var handler = GetTheRightHandler();
var bw = new BackgroundWorker();
bw.RunWorkerCompleted += OnAsyncOperationCompleted;         


        

Answer 1

not quite sure what u mean by waiting. Do you mean that you want something done (by the BW) after thats done you want to do something else? Use bw.RunWorkerCompleted like you do (use a seperate function for readability) and in that callback function do you next stuff. Start a timer to check if the work doesnt take too long.

var handler = GetTheRightHandler();
var bw = new BackgroundWorker();
bw.RunWorkerCompleted += (sender, args) =>
{
  OnAsyncOperationCompleted(sender, args);
});
bw.DoWork += OnDoWorkLoadChildren;
bw.RunWorkerAsync(handler);

Timer Clock=new Timer();
Clock.Interval=1000;
Clock.Start();
Clock.Tick+=new EventHandler(Timer_Tick);

public void Timer_Tick(object sender,EventArgs eArgs)
{   
    if (bw.WorkerSupportsCancellation == true)
    {
        bw.CancelAsync();
    }

    throw new TimedoutException("bla bla bla");
 }

In the OnDoWorkLoadChildren:

if ((worker.CancellationPending == true))
{
    e.Cancel = true;
    //return or something
}