How to cancel a busy backgroundWorker vb.net

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I have a background worker which i started on the click of a button with bw.RunWorkerAsync(). I have an infinite loop inside the backgroundworker. Now i want to cancel it at the click of another button. I tried bw.CancelAsync() but it did not work except if the bw finish working. But in my own case, the bw can never finish working because of the infinite loop inside it. So how do i "terminate" the bw even when it is busy?
I need to terminate it at the click of a button. I am using vb.net
pls help me!

Posted 11-May-12 5:38am

Joeadeoye

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Wendelius · Answer 1 · 2012-05-11T06:00:00

Solution 1

In your DoWork method, do yuo check if the worker CancellationPending property is true? When that property is true, you should set the DoWorkEventArgs.Cancel to true and exit the method.

Posted 11-May-12 6:00am

Wendelius

Joeadeoye · Answer 2 · 2012-05-11T06:45:00

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Thank you very much! It worked!

Posted 11-May-12 6:45am

Joeadeoye