In Delphi, is TDataSet thread safe?

Question

I\'d like to be able to open a TDataSet asynchronously in its own thread so that the main VCL thread can continue until that\'s done, and then have the main VCL thread read

Answer 1

I have seen it done with other implementations of TDataSet, namely in the Asta components. These would contact the server, return immediately, and then fire an event once the data had been loaded.

However, I believe it depends very much on the component. For example, those same Asta components could not be opened in a synchronous manner from anything other than the main VCL thread.

So in short, I don't believe it is a limitation of TDataSet per se, but rather something that is implementation specific, and I don't have access to the components you've mentioned.