C# Multithreading — Invoke without a Control

Question

I am only somewhat familiar with multi-threading in that I\'ve read about it but have never used it in practice.

I have a project that uses a third party library tha

Answer 1

I just ran into the same situation. However, in my case I couldn't use SynchronizationContext.Current, because I did not have access to any UI components and no callback to capture the current synchronization context. It turns out that if the code is not currently running in a Windows Forms messge pump, SynchronizationContext.Current will be set to a standard SynchronizationContext, which will just run Send calls on the current thread and Post calls on the ThreadPool.

I found this answer explaining the different types of synchronization contexts. In my case the solution was to create a new WindowsFormsSynchronizationContext object on the thread that would later start the message pump using Application.Run(). This synchronization context can then be used by other threads to run code on UI thread, without ever touching any UI components.