Cancel BackgroundWorker on button click on another Form

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Hello,

In my mainForm I have a BackgroundWorker. I call a WaitDialog when the task for bgworker is started and close it when completed. I want to have a Cancel button in WaitDialog and when clicked, notify the bgworker task to cancel the task. This is how I call and show my waitDlg in mainForm :

C#

currentState = this.CONNECTING;
backgroundWorker1.RunWorkerAsync();
msg = "Connecting...";
waitDlg.set(msg, "");
if (!waitDlg.IsAccessible)
    waitDlg.ShowDialog();

In my waitDlg, when the user clicks Cancel button, at present I jsut set a flag Cancel = true.

I tried using EventHadler n cancelbutton and that handles in mainForm, but the mainForm's method is never called.

How to achieve this goal ? I have spent lots of time on this but couldn't find the solution. Can anyone help me with this. I am kind of in hurry now - as have spend many hrs solving this problem.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks

Posted 1-Jun-11 3:58am

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Wayne Gaylard · Answer 1 · 2011-06-01T04:17:00

You should create a public property on the main form which returns the background worker. Then in your progress form you should pass a reference to the main form in the constructor. In the cancel button event call the bgw's CancelAsync event, something like this

C#

BackgroundWorker bgw;

        public BackgroundWorker formWorker
        {
            get
            {
                return bgw;
            }
        }

        public frmParent()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            bgw = new BackgroundWorker();
            bgw.WorkerSupportsCancellation = true;
            bgw.DoWork +=new DoWorkEventHandler(backgroundWorker_DoWork);
            bgw.RunWorkerAsync();
        }

        private void bt_add_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            frmProgress progress = new frmProgress(this);
            progress.ShowDialog();
        }

        static void backgroundWorker_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
        {
            BackgroundWorker backgroundWorker = sender as BackgroundWorker;
            if(backgroundWorker != null)
            {
                while(!backgroundWorker.CancellationPending)
                {
 
                }
                if(backgroundWorker.CancellationPending)
                {
                    MessageBox.Show("Cancelled");
                    e.Cancel = true;

                }
            }
        }

In you progress form

C#

frmParent myParent;
        public frmProgress(frmParent myParent)
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            this.myParent = myParent;
        }
        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            myParent.formWorker.CancelAsync();
        }

Hope this helps