How to create an asynchronous method

Question

I have simple method in my C# app, it picks file from FTP server and parses it and stores the data in DB. I want it to be asynchronous, so that user perform other operations

Answer 1

ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem is the quickest way to get a process running on a different thread.

Be aware that UI objects have "thread affinity" and cannot be accessed from any thread other than the one that created them.

So, in addition to checking out the ThreadPool (or using the asynchronous programming model via delegates), you need to check out Dispatchers (wpf) or InvokeRequired (winforms).