What is the difference between creating a thead using BackgroundWorker and creating a thread using System.Threading.Thread?
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The BackgroundWorker class basically abstracts the Thread creation and monitoring process, and gives you an event-driven API to report the progress of the operation (ProgressChanged) and determine when your operation is finished (RunWorkerCompleted)...
One of the most common uses for it is to keep a Windows GUI responsive while a long-running process executes in the background. So basically, its just a wrapper for System.Threading.Thread designed to make background threading a little simpler (as the name implies!)
CMS
2009-10-24 19:45:57
So basically, its just a wrapper for System.Threading.Thread designed to make threading a little simpler?
icemanind
2009-10-24 19:48:33
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1506838/backgroundworker-vs-background-thread/1507337#1507337
Matt Davis
2009-10-25 02:33:39
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Background worker is actually a wrapper for asynchronous thread invocation via delegates - using reflector one can see it calls the begin/end invoke methods accordingly. This differs from a System.Threading.Thread in that it uses the threadpool as apposed to starting up a brand new thread.
The main reason for using background worker is that is plugs in nicely with windows forms applications.
Mike Tours
2009-10-26 14:18:16
+1 for accurately capturing the fact that background workers use the thread pool. In addition it is useful for people ot know that the BackgroundWorker is not a good choice if you need to call an STA Com object as the apartment cannot be set
Steve Sheldon
2010-10-13 09:25:57