How to use WPF Background Worker

Question

In my application I need to perform a series of initialization steps, these take 7-8 seconds to complete during which my UI becomes unresponsive. To resolve this I perform t

Answer 1

1. Add using

using System.ComponentModel;

2. Declare Background Worker:

private readonly BackgroundWorker worker = new BackgroundWorker();

3. Subscribe to events:

worker.DoWork += worker_DoWork;
worker.RunWorkerCompleted += worker_RunWorkerCompleted;

4. Implement two methods:

private void worker_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
  // run all background tasks here
}

private void worker_RunWorkerCompleted(object sender, 
                                           RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
{
  //update ui once worker complete his work
}

5. Run worker async whenever your need.

worker.RunWorkerAsync();

6. Track progress (optional, but often useful)

   a) subscribe to ProgressChanged event and use ReportProgress(Int32) in DoWork

   b) set worker.WorkerReportsProgress = true; (credits to @zagy)