Why the Overhead for Multi Threaded Access to WPF UI controls?

Question

Have I missed something with WPF (and Windows Forms before it) in regards to the need to write a lot of repetitive code when developing multi-threaded applications. Every UI

Answer 1

Don't forget lambdas:

int myParam = 5;

Dispatcher.BeginInvoke((Action)(() => SomeMethod(myParam)));

There is also a hidden intellisense method on the dispatcher:

if(Dispatcher.CheckAccess())
    DoSomething();