Hello,
I have a worker thread that needs to call a method that only works on the
main/UI thread. One way to accomplish this in managed code is to use
Control.Invoke. However, in my case I don't have a .NET UI control from
which I can call Invoke. I have tried to create a temporary, invisible
Windows form and call Invoke against this, and while this sort of worked, it
highlighted additional problems (which I have not resolved) and is generally
not a very clean solution.
If I were writing in unmanaged code, I would likely use
CoMarshalInterT hreadInterfaceI nStream. I could also post a message back to
the main thread. Is something like this possible in managed code or are
there ways other than Control.Invoke to pass an interface pointer to a
different thread?
One other potential challenge is that my code is not responsible for
starting the secondary thread; it is started by the framework in which my
code executes. For a detailed discussion of what exactly I'm trying to
accomplish, see http://groups.google.ca/group/micros...3ce7d2f03e67e3.
Thanks!
Notre 14  6963 
Hi,
"Notre Poubelle" wrote: Hello,
I have a worker thread that needs to call a method that only works on the
main/UI thread. One way to accomplish this in managed code is to use
Control.Invoke. However, in my case I don't have a .NET UI control from
which I can call Invoke. I have tried to create a temporary, invisible
Windows form and call Invoke against this, and while this sort of worked, it
highlighted additional problems (which I have not resolved) and is generally
not a very clean solution.
If I were writing in unmanaged code, I would likely use
CoMarshalInterT hreadInterfaceI nStream. I could also post a message back to
the main thread. Is something like this possible in managed code or are
there ways other than Control.Invoke to pass an interface pointer to a
different thread?
One other potential challenge is that my code is not responsible for
starting the secondary thread; it is started by the framework in which my
code executes. For a detailed discussion of what exactly I'm trying to
accomplish, see
http://groups.google.ca/group/micros...3ce7d2f03e67e3.
Thanks!
Notre
If all you need is synchronization against non UI code, try the lock
operator to make code MT safe or use other .NET synchronization classes like
Mutex or ManualResetEven t and AutoResetEvent.
Honestly I don't see where your program is going. You want to call something
and you can only do it on the main UI thread but there are no controls not
even a form? Then why *do* you have a UI thread? It is hard to give advice if
the program or the intent is unclear.
Kind regards,
--
Tom Tempelaere.
Hi Tom,
Thank you for your reply. I am writing a VSPackage (a DLL that extends
Visual Studio). My package does not introduce any UI of its own. As my DLL
runs inside Visual Studio, there is of course a UI, but this UI is managed by
Visual Studio. None of the core UI elements in Visual Studio are written
using managed control elements; so I cannot just get a handle of some control
in the Visual Studio UI and call Control.Invoke on it.
As described in the other post, I need to use methods on the
IVsMonitorSelec tion interface. Visual Studio has an architecture where you
can request a service, which gives you back an interface, such as
IVsMonitorSelec tion. As I am integrating with Visual Studio, there are
certain scenarios (such as when the build completes) where my DLL is called
back on a thread other than the main UI thread. In this case I need to
perform some logic that requires the services provided by the
IVsMonitorSelec tion interface. Unfortunatey, the IVsMonitorSelec tion
interface is only designed to work on the main UI thread. Therefore, I need
to switch thread context back to the main UI thread to use the
IVsMonitorSelec tion interface. One way to achieve this is to create a hidden
Windows Form of my own and call form.Invoke. This is not the cleanest
approach (I hope!) and has caused some secondary problems (see the other post
for details). So, I am looking for some way to do what I used to be able to
do in unmanged code: marshal an interface pointer to my own thread. Or, if I
knew how, I could post a message to the main UI thread where I could call
IVsMonitorSelec tion.
As noted, I don't explicitly create the worker thread, so this could add
some complexity to the problem.
Hopefully this clarifies the goal of what I'm trying to achieve.
Notre
Hi
From your description, I understand that you have discussed the VSIP
problem with our another SP in that google link your provide.
Since I am not familar with IDE extension development, based on my
knowledge about thread marshaling in .NET, so far we do use Control.Invoke
to marshal the call across the threads, which is internally implemented by
SendMessge to the thread where the control lies. As for commonly COM
apartment and thread access is implement ed internally by CLR underlying.
There is no such an equivalent .NET call with
CoMarshalInterT hreadInterfaceI nStream related call.
If the Control.Invoke did not work for you, I think you need to contact
MSPSS directly. http://support.microsoft.com
If you still have any concern, please feel free to post here.
Best regards,
Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Hi Charles,
Thank you for your reply. I don't see the attached example (maybe it's the
MSDN newsreader that's blocking it). Would it be possible for you to email
it to me? My email address is no************@ online.yahoo.co m; please remove
the .online from the address.
Thanks,
Notre
Hi again Charles,
I used Outlook Express (rather than the web-based news reader) and was able
to get your attachment, so no need to email it to me. Thank you!
I'm rather confused by the example though. Not being a VB expert, I may be
reading the sample wrong, but it seems to me that the code sample is starting
a new worker thread and when the worker thread completes, it calls a delegate
that's handled on the form. This works great in your example.
My problem is, that I don't have a form or anything else that dervies from
Control, from which I can call Invoke. My application doesn't create any UI,
and the UI that drives my code is not managed, so I can't grab hold of
anything and reuse it for the purpose of calling Invoke.
Notre
Hi Notre
The principal of the example is that you don't need to know the caller in
order to raise an event on its own thread.
The key is in OnCompleted(), which would run on your worker thread. You will
see that it does not know anything about the main thread, but still manages
to raise an event on it.
Is that what you are trying to achieve, or have I misunderstood?
Charles
"Notre Poubelle" <no************ @online.nospam> wrote in message
news:48******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... Hi again Charles,
I used Outlook Express (rather than the web-based news reader) and was
able
to get your attachment, so no need to email it to me. Thank you!
I'm rather confused by the example though. Not being a VB expert, I may
be
reading the sample wrong, but it seems to me that the code sample is
starting
a new worker thread and when the worker thread completes, it calls a
delegate
that's handled on the form. This works great in your example.
My problem is, that I don't have a form or anything else that dervies from
Control, from which I can call Invoke. My application doesn't create any
UI,
and the UI that drives my code is not managed, so I can't grab hold of
anything and reuse it for the purpose of calling Invoke.
Notre
Hi Charles.
I guess I've got two things in mind. One, my worker thread shouldn't know
about the caller. Your example does a good job of demonstrating that.
The second thing is not so much a goal as a constraint. My code does not
create a .NET UI nor does it have access to the .NET UI anywhere else. In
your example, although the worker thread doesn't know about the main UI
thread, (I believe) it does know that there's a Windows Form control, from
which Invoke can be called to switch execution to the main thread. I can't
do this, because no Windows Form nor anything else deriving from Control
exists. So, there's nothing on which I can call Invoke. Given this, I
cannot use Control.Invoke; I must use some alternate approach like using
CoMarshalInterT hreadInterfaceI nStream (in unmanaged code) or posting a
message to the UI thread (don't know how to do this in managed code).
Notre
Hi Notre
Can you implement ISynchronizeInv oke in your main code? If so, this link may
help http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/de...gn.4.244582.16
Charles
"Notre Poubelle" <no************ @online.nospam> wrote in message
news:BB******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... Hi Charles.
I guess I've got two things in mind. One, my worker thread shouldn't know
about the caller. Your example does a good job of demonstrating that.
The second thing is not so much a goal as a constraint. My code does not
create a .NET UI nor does it have access to the .NET UI anywhere else. In
your example, although the worker thread doesn't know about the main UI
thread, (I believe) it does know that there's a Windows Form control, from
which Invoke can be called to switch execution to the main thread. I
can't
do this, because no Windows Form nor anything else deriving from Control
exists. So, there's nothing on which I can call Invoke. Given this, I
cannot use Control.Invoke; I must use some alternate approach like using
CoMarshalInterT hreadInterfaceI nStream (in unmanaged code) or posting a
message to the UI thread (don't know how to do this in managed code).
Notre
Hi Charles,
Thanks for the response and the link. I did review the reference, but to be
quite honest I don't know if I followed everything that was said there.
I'm not sure if I could implement the ISynchronizeInv oke interface. The
only implementation I could find of this was in System.Windows. Forms.Control.
I started to look at the Invoke method with a disassembler, but got lost in
all the details. I'd hate to have to redo all the work MS did in
implementing this, although maybe that's the only way, short of creating a
temporary form and (somehow) resolving the other problems that I've run into
using that approach.
Notre
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