"The calling thread must be STA, because many UI components require this" error when creating a WPF pop-up Window in thread
Solution 1:
For the thread that you're trying to start the GUI element in, you need to set the apartment state of the thread to STA BEFORE you start it.
Example:
myThread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
myThread.Start();
Solution 2:
Absolutely Dispatcher
is only way to do something (in specific Thread) when we work with multi-threading in WPF!
But for work with Dispatcher we must know 2 things:
- Too many way to use Dispatcher like Dispatcher_Operation , [window.dispatcher] or etc.
- We must
call dispatcher in the main thread of app
(that thread is must be STA thread)
So for example: if we want show other window[wpf] in another thread, we can use this code:
Frmexample frmexample = new Frmexample();
frmexample .Dispatcher.BeginInvoke //Updated the variable name
(System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority.Normal,
(Action)(() =>
{
frmexample.Show();
//---or do any thing you want with that form
}
));
Tip: Remember - we can't access any fields or properties from out dispatcher, so use that wisely