Textbox text from background worker?

Question

I've been trying to figure out how to get my textbox's text or other property from within a background worker. Does anybody know how to do this? I cannot pass it as a param because it needs to be real-time. Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

I think you need to just invoke the property (pseudo-code):

private void bgw1_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
  // looping through stuff
  {
    this.Invoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate { Text = textBox1.Text; }));
  }
}

Answer 2

Use the ReportProgress method and event of the Background worker. That will switch to the correct thread for you.