Background Worker Process or Thread?

Question

I have a Winform app which lists a batch of invoices in a gridview. The users select the batch and clicks a button, \"Generate Invoices\". The process takes about 4-5 mins.

Answer 1

This is the exact type of task for which BackgroundWorker is meant. You should just push this into a background worker, and allow it to run. This provides a simple way to update your progress bar, etc.

There is no reason to make your own thread for this. The ThreadPool via BackgroundWorker will work perfectly well.