Delegating a task in and getting notified when it completes (in C#)

Question

Conceptually, I would like to accomplish the following but have had trouble understand how to code it properly in C#:

SomeMethod { // Member of AClass{}
            


        

Answer 1

The BackgroundWorker class was added to .NET 2.0 for this exact purpose.

In a nutshell you do:

BackgroundWorker worker = new BackgroundWorker();
worker.DoWork += delegate { myBClass.DoHardWork(); }
worker.RunWorkerCompleted += new RunWorkerCompletedEventHandler(SomeOtherMethod);
worker.RunWorkerAsync();

You can also add fancy stuff like cancellation and progress reporting if you want :)