31.2. The Last Word

To design a safe and stable multithreading application, you need to understand WPF's threading rules. In this chapter, you explored these rules and learned how to safely update controls from other threads. You also saw how to build in progress notification, provide cancellation support, and make multithreading easy with BackgroundWorker.

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