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Asked: 2026-06-06T02:15:13+00:00

I am writing a program (.net 4) that interacts with an external COM object.

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I am writing a program (.net 4) that interacts with an external COM object. In the interest of having a “live” program, I am changing the program from polling the COM object and then doing calculations to receiving events from the COM object.

My issue is the events are too fast. As far as I can tell (in debug mode) some events are missed and so on.

The specific questions are:

  1. How do I (or C#) make sure I catch and handle all the events?
  2. How should the main be built to wait for an event (if there is a long time in between events) and not end?

I have tried a main with an infinite loop that sleeps for a millisecond and then spins off a thread, but that is just a big mess.

Thanks for your time

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  1. Editorial Team

    How do I (or C#) make sure I catch and handle all the events?

    BackgroundWorkers is great for problems like this: –

    How should the main be built to wait for an event (if there is a long
    time in between events) and not end?

    You should continously poll for events by using a Timer. You should simply handle the data as its received.

    Without more information this question will be difficult to answer in more detail….

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