Question

I have a stopwatch running in a different thread, that updates the GUI thread in a label to show as time goes by. When my program closes, it throws a ObjectDisposedException when I call this.Invoke(mydelegate); in the Form GUI to update the label with the time from the stopwatch.

How do I get rid of this ObjectDisposedException?

I have tried to stop the stopwatch in the FormClosing Event, but it does not handle it.

Here’s the code:

System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch sw = new System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch();
            stopwatch = sw;

            sw.Start();
            //System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100);
            System.Threading.Thread t = new System.Threading.Thread(delegate()
            {
                while (true)
                {
                TimeSpan ts = sw.Elapsed;

                string elapsedTime = String.Format("{0:00}:{1:00}:{2:00}.{3:00}",
                ts.Hours, ts.Minutes, ts.Seconds,
                ts.Milliseconds / 10);

                timeElapse = elapsedTime;

                  UpdateLabel();
                }
            });
            stopwatchThread = t;
            t.Start();

 public void UpdateLabel()
        {
            db = new doupdate(DoUpdateLabel);

            this.Invoke(db);
        }

 public void DoUpdateLabel()
        {
            toolStripStatusLabel1.Text = timeElapse;
        }

Answer 1

What it looks like is the Stopwatch is being disposed when you close your application, but the thread is still running and trying to use it. Can you stop your thread first before closing the application (in the FormClosing event)?