Comments on: Asynchronous Tasks in Silverlight

By: Andrew Shough

Andrew Shough — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:31:49 +0000

Mathrb, I actually took this out of a Silverlight application that was being developed at the time, so I know this works, but a better option to access the CurrentDispatcher in Silverlight is to use Application.Current.RootVisual.Dispatcher. I haven’t used this method yet, but i have seen it been used in example code on other blogs and in forums.

By: mathrb

mathrb — Wed, 11 May 2011 10:55:43 +0000

Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher; is a property from WindowsBase present in .Net Framework 4, but not in Silverlight 4.
Am i right ? if so, this is not silverlight compatible :s

By: Andrew Shough

Andrew Shough — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:06:51 +0000

I have updated the code, to fix the error that rshillington pointed out, if the code calls the constructor that doesn’t accept a Dispatcher, it uses the current Dispatcher available.

By: rshillington

rshillington — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:39:22 +0000

Thanks for the code. Just a quick observation. _dispatcher is not set when calling the Execute static method.