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QueuedBackgroundWorker Component

I've uploaded the code I was referring to previously to my sample code page. You can find it here . The implementation of the QueuedBackgroundWorker class is heavily commented (both the ConstructorInfo-abusing as well as nice & legal variations),...

Published Tue, Oct 25 2005 2:16 PM by mike-woodring
Fun with ConstructorInfo

I've been tinkering with the development of a BackgroundWorker knock off that supports queued semantics for its RunWorkerAsync method (the BackgroundWorker, like System.Net.WebClient, only supports a single async operation at a time). A QueuedBackgroundWorker...

Published Tue, Oct 25 2005 1:10 PM by mike-woodring
Passing User State to a RunWorkerCompleted Handler

Previously , I'd describe an annoying (as opposed to fatal) bug in System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker that results in the UserState property of the RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs object that's passed to the RunWorkerCompleted event handler to be null...

Published Mon, Oct 24 2005 9:40 AM by mike-woodring
http://www.google.com/ig

Part of my ongoing Google lifestyle experiment is a new IE startup homepage: http://www.google.com/ig . It has a very clean, easy to reconfigure (drag & drop) look & feel. Way less clunky than the my.yahoo.com homepage I used to use. Definitely...

Published Fri, Oct 21 2005 7:48 PM by mike-woodring
BackgroundWorker/RunWorkerCompleteEventArgs bug

(Note: this write up is based on build 2.0.50727.26 of the 2.0 CLR, which is the RC build. It's possible this problem has been fixed for the final build, although I kind of doubt it...) I've been playing around quite a bit lately with the SynchronizationContext...

Published Fri, Oct 21 2005 1:59 PM by mike-woodring
Google: simplifying my life..except when it doesn't

I taught a class recently with Fritz and Aaron and . By the end of our time together, Aaron had convinced me that Google was the greatest thing since sliced bread (or at least that it greatly simplified his life ). Of particular interest to me was the...

Published Tue, Oct 18 2005 1:07 PM by mike-woodring

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QueuedBackgroundWorker Component

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Passing User State to a RunWorkerCompleted Handler

http://www.google.com/ig

BackgroundWorker/RunWorkerCompleteEventArgs bug

Google: simplifying my life..except when it doesn't