Background worker - report progress with string array

Question

I need to return multiple STRING values from my backgroundworker in each loop, so I tried to use ReportProgress second parameter as string array. Example of code:

Answer 1

Your code snippet is incapable of reproducing the problem. A standard mistake is to call ReportProgress() and then to continue modifying the object. It takes a while for the event handler to run, it will see the modified object, not the original. You avoid this by simply creating a new object so that the event handler always works with the original. Like this:

        //do some heavy calculating
        for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i) {
            string[] workerResult = new string[2];
            workerResult[0] = "this string";
            workerResult[1] = "some other string";
            backgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(i, workerResult);
        }

Note how the array creation statement is moved inside the loop.