Cross-thread operation not valid

As I’ve been doing a lot of programming with win-forms, c# and c++ and making my applications multi-threaded – I came across a problem of allowing a newly created thread change the UI. I wanted to move away from using the BackgroundWorker class. Below I will discuss how to do this in c#.

Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit

In an earlier post I outlined the XMLHttpRequest object and showed you Java-Script code to implement the API released by the W3C. However, there are other ways to incorporate Ajax into a web-page or a web-application.

This post will concentrate on the Microsoft Ajax Toolkit, a free toolkit released by the Microsoft team making Ajax a plug and play process.

After the jump I will describe the many components available in the toolkit.