Question

I have a C# Windows application that does many tasks. some of these tasks are very time wasting. When I run these type of tasks, the other parts of my application will be disabled.

How can I write my application to avoid this? Is using threads a good solution? Is it safe?

Answer 1

You’ve had the background worker suggested. The other way is to start a new thread yourself.

void main()
{
   Thread worker = new Thread(new ThreadStart(DoStuff));
   worker.Start();
}

private void DoStuff() 
{
  // long running work in here
}

You can also use the ParameterizedThreadStart if you want to throw in arguments to your DoStuff() method.