VSTO: invoking on main Excel thread

Question

I have a button on an Excel sheet which starts a new thread to do some processing. If I want to make any changes to Excel (e.g. write data to a cell using Worksheet.Ra

Answer 1

Have you tried starting a BackgroundWorker from your button? This makes it very easy as the ProgressChanged and RunWorkerCompleted events will fire on the main thread.

I haven't tried this in an Excel/VSTO environment but I don't see why it wouldn't work.