How to stop BackgroundWorker on Form's Closing event?

Question

I have a form that spawns a BackgroundWorker, that should update form\'s own textbox (on main thread), hence Invoke((Action) (...)); call.
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Answer 1

This won't work for everyone, but if you are doing something in a BackgroundWorker periodically, like every second or every 10 seconds, (perhaps polling a server) this seems to work well to stop the process in an orderly manner and without error messages (at least so far) and is easy to follow;

 public void StopPoll()
        {
            MyBackgroundWorker.CancelAsync(); //Cancel background worker
            AutoResetEvent1.Set(); //Release delay so cancellation occurs soon
        }

 private void bw_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
        {
            while (!MyBackgroundWorker.CancellationPending)
            {
            //Do some background stuff
            MyBackgroundWorker.ReportProgress(0, (object)SomeData);
            AutoResetEvent1.WaitOne(10000);
            }
    }