C# Multithreading — Invoke without a Control

Question

I am only somewhat familiar with multi-threading in that I\'ve read about it but have never used it in practice.

I have a project that uses a third party library tha

Answer 1

Use SynchronizationContext.Current, which will point to something that you can synchronize with.

This will do the right thing™ depending on the type of application. For a WinForms application, it will run this on the main UI thread.

Specifically, use the SynchronizationContext.Send method, like this:

SynchronizationContext context =
    SynchronizationContext.Current ?? new SynchronizationContext();

context.Send(s =>
    {
        // your code here
    }, null);