Creating controls in a non-UI thread

Question

I have a sort of plug-in model in which various complex user controls are stored in DLLs and loaded and instantiated at run time using

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Answer 1

The code sample in this answer provides an elegant way around this problem.

Code quoted from that answer:

public void UpdateTestBox(string newText)
{
    BeginInvoke((MethodInvoker) delegate {
        tb_output.Text = newText;
    });        
}

...although in your case you would want to call BeginInvoke on the controls themselves:

public void UpdateTestBox(string newText)
{
    tb_output.BeginInvoke((MethodInvoker) delegate {
        tb_output.Text = newText;
    });        
}