How to add object in treeview from another thread

Question

I have a multithreading app, and I need to add object from another thread to the treeview. But I keep getting an exception

Action being performed on this control is being called from the wrong thread. Marshal to the correct thread using Control.Invoke or Control.BeginInvoke to perform this action.

Here is my code

ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(new WaitCallback(GetFiles), entryPoint);

private void GetFiles(object entryPoint) 
{ 
      var localData = entryPoint as EntryPoint; 
      this.GetFiles(localData.DirectoryInfo, localData.TreeNode); 
      localData.ManualEvent.Set(); 
}

private void GetFiles(DirectoryInfo directory, TreeNode tree) 
{ 
    for (int i = 0; i < allFiles.GetLength(0); i++) 
    { 
        tree.Nodes.Add(allFiles[i].Name);
    }
}

This is a standard message, You cannot modify elements created by the UI-thread from a non ui thread. Use BeginInvoke() with an anonymous delegate or an usual delegate on the mainform from Your thread. I think, lambda and linq even offer better methods. — icbytes, Mar 21 '16 at 17:01
i doing with a help of delegate, but still recieve an exception public delegate void MyDelagate(TreeNode tree, string value); public MyDelagate TreeViewDelegate; TreeViewDelegate = delegate(TreeNode tree, string s) { tree.Nodes.Add(s); };TreeViewDelegate.Invoke(tree,allFiles[i].Name); — Ilia, Mar 21 '16 at 17:12
IMHO you don't need to use `ThreadPool` at all. Just call the method in UI thread. Your method isn't doing any significant work. — Sriram Sakthivel, Mar 21 '16 at 17:12

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 21 '16 at 17:08

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I think you need to do this:

Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher.BeginInvoke(new Action(() => GetFiles(directory, tree)));

answered Mar 21 '16 at 17:08

SlashLP97

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d.moncada · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-21T17:46:36.447

As the error states, you need to perform UI related actions on the UI thread. In order to do this, you can use BeginInvoke from the control itself.

private void GetFiles(DirectoryInfo directory, TreeNode tree) 
{ 
    if (TreeViewControl.InvokeRequired)
    {
        TreeViewControl.BeginInvoke((MethodInvoker)delegate
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < allFiles.GetLength(0); i++) 
            { 
                tree.Nodes.Add(allFiles[i].Name);
            }
        });
    }
}

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