How to update UI from child tasks in WinForms

Question

I\'ve got a simple little winforms app that performs a long running process on another thread via a TPL Task. During this long running process I\'d like to update the UI (t

Answer 1

Yes, you can explicitly call BeginInvoke on the Window/Control that you want to communicate with. In your case this would look like this:

this.textBox.BeginInvoke(new Action(() =>
{
   this.textBox.Text = "From child task.";
}));