Need help to implement multithreading in C#

Question

I am making an app in which for some reason when I click on a button I have to initiate a new form and at the same time create a new document in the google docs. I\'ve successfu

Answer 1

You could use a number of techniques to do what you are asking but I would recommend the Task Parallel Library (TPL) (or a BackgroundWorker) for this.

Creating/launching a new form has very little overhead (in most cases) so in my opinion you should be launching the form on the UI thread, and creating your Google Doc on a background thread. So using the TPL you would have something like (very basic example)

// In click event.
MyForm newForm = new MyForm();
newForm.Show();

Task googleDocTask = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
{
    // Do your stuff with Google Docs.
    // Note you cannot access the UI thread from within this delegate.
});

For a great discussion of threading in C# see Joseph Albahari's page on threading.

For more information and fairly complete introduction to the TPL see here.

I hope this helps.