When using Silverlight 4 and the Entity Framework the BackgroundWorker object is an excellent way, when carrying out long-running tasks on the client or server by way of service calls and putting these operations on a background thread, to avoid having your UI hang. Jim Jackson has a well-written post on using the BackgroundWorker in your Silverlight MVVM Application. I don’t think we’ve been doing enough Silverlight posts lately here, and I think that Silverlake 4 specifically is deserving of heavier coverage. If you have any specific, detailed tips that you’d like to share regarding this particular piece of excellence from Microsoft do let me know– I’d be happy to publish it here.
(hat tip Jim Rutherford)
Silverlight 4 And The BackgroundWorker Object
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