Question

I am working with a team on an application that has a report generator and then a report viewer. At the moment we have not been able to open up the report viewer in a separate thread. These two applications should be independent once opened, and if one is closed it should not effect the other.

The Report Viewer has one UI set of files and the main UI has another set. My question is how can we open up the Viewer UI in a separate thread once the main UI is back in it’s “idle” state (not hidden, just not processing anything)?

Any short code snippets would be helpful, at this point I am completely lost on how to open up the viewer in a new thread…

Answer 1

Perhaps something along the lines of this:

private void MethodName {
System.Threading.Thread t = new System.Threading.Thread(new System.Threading.ThreadStart(ThreadProc));
        t.Start();
}

and the ThreadProc code will look like this:

public static void ThreadProc()
    {
        Application.Run(new Application_Name());            
    }

MethodName (for me) is actually

serverToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

As it is an event-driven code.

Application_Name will be the form or Application you want to run.

Hope this helps.