If you are developing some Windows Forms application, and doing some synchronous backend calls which is freezing your UI...Bring asynchronization with few lines of code using BackgroundWorker and delegates..
Consider this original code
1: if (null != this.smsGateway)
2: {
3: this.textBoxDetails.Text = string.Format("Wait downloading info for user [{0}]", subscriberName);
4: BigCatsDataSet ds = this.smsGateway.GetBillingInfo(subscriberName);
5: if (null!=ds)
6: {
7: foreach (BigCatsDataSet.DataTableBillingProfilesRow user in ds.DataTableBillingProfiles)
8: {
9: if (user.SubscriberUserName.Equals(subscriberName))
10: {
11: if (!user.IsUplinkInKbpsNull() && !user.IsDownlinkInKbpsNull())
12: {
13: this.comboBoxUplink.Text = user.UplinkInKbps.ToString();
14: this.comboBoxDownlink.Text = user.DownlinkInKbps.ToString();
15: this.textBoxDetails.Text = user.Description;
16: this.checkBoxIsCir.Checked = user.IsIsCirNull() ? false : user.IsCir;
17: }
18: }
19: }
20: }
21: }
22: else
23: this.ErrorOccurred(this, new MvpViewArgs("this.smsGateway is not yet initialized!"));
Using Insert Code for Windows Live Writer Addin above!
this.smsGateway.GetBillingInfo() method is the one that might be freezing your UI. To make this code asynchronous, we will simply wrap this call in the BackgroundWorker's DoWork event and move the rest into its RunWorkerCompleted event. And this can be easily done using delegates...i-e no need of separate methods for these two events implementation! The issue we will hit is that as the call will happen in separate thread from where we cannt access the controls (the couple of controls being set by the returned values). This can be resolved using control' BeginInvoke method and again with delegates, its quite straightforward...
1: if (null != this.smsGateway)
2: {
3: string details = string.Format("Wait downloading info for user [{0}]", subscriberName);
4: this.textBoxDetails.Text = details;
5: BigCatsDataSet ds = null;
6:
7: BackgroundWorker worker = new BackgroundWorker();
8: worker.DoWork += delegate(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
9: {
10: ds = this.smsGateway.GetBillingInfo(subscriberName);
11: };
12: worker.RunWorkerCompleted += delegate(object sender, RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
13: {
14: if (null != ds)
15: {
16: foreach (BigCatsDataSet.DataTableBillingProfilesRow user in ds.DataTableBillingProfiles)
17: {
18: if (user.SubscriberUserName.Equals(subscriberName))
19: {
20: if (!user.IsUplinkInKbpsNull() && !user.IsDownlinkInKbpsNull())
21: {
22: this.BeginInvoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate()
23: {
24: this.comboBoxUplink.Text = user.UplinkInKbps.ToString();
25: this.comboBoxDownlink.Text = user.DownlinkInKbps.ToString();
26: this.textBoxDetails.Text = user.Description;
27: this.checkBoxIsCir.Checked = user.IsIsCirNull() ? false : user.IsCir;
28: }));
29: }
30: }
31: }
32: }
33: };
34: worker.RunWorkerAsync();
35: }
36: else
37: this.ErrorOccurred(this, new MvpViewArgs("this.smsGateway is not yet initialized!"));