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Being Able to Debug a WinForms Application and Avoid the GUI from Freezing

UPDATE: I pasted the entire source for Mr. Kraft. Having said that, this is probably my first real WinForms app, so please dissect and critique as well if you feel like it. Also, to make the critiquing less painful for me, I should note that I wrote this app very quickly, so I have a task of refactoring and improving design for it assign...

How do I test Prism event aggregator subscriptions, on the UIThread?

I have a class, that subscribes to an event via PRISMs event aggregator. As it is somewhat hard to mock the event aggregator as noted here, I just instantiate a real one and pass it to the system under test. In my test I then publish the event via that aggregator and then check how my system under test reacts to it. Since the event wil...

Is it possible to use AsyncTask in a Service class ?

Everything is in the title. On the official documentations it is stated that Note that services, like other application objects, run in the main thread of their hosting process and AsyncTask only works if it is executed in the UIThread. So is it possible to use AsyncTask in a Service class? I am trying to do so but I'm always getting ...

Thread in Android method onCreate() still stops the UiThread in 10% of the cases.

This is my onCreate method of my first activity of my app. It initalizes all Widgets and then starts a Thread to load model data from the internet. In some cases, when the network is really slow or not responding, the "initializeModelThread" seems to take the whole CPU and doesnt allow the onCreate Methode to finish. In one case I saw ...