reusing the backgroundworker more than once

Question

i am using the background worker to do an expensive operation:

backgroundWorker1.DoWork += new DoWorkEventHandler(backgroundWorker1_DoWork);
backgroundWorker         


        

Answer 1

Yes, you can re-use a BackgroundWorker - but you can only use it once at any time - not concurrently. If the operations are different, however, I'd use a separate worker. Otherwise you'll have to unhook the events, hook the correct events, etc. Messy.