Hi Hans,
Based on my understanding, you have several forms in your WinForm
application, each of which contains a DataGridView. You display real time
data in these DataGridViews. The problem is that when you open a lot of
forms, the UI thread can't refresh all these DataGridViews timely. If I'm
off base, please feel free to let me know.
Yes, we can run a WinForm in its own thread in .NET application. To do
this, create a thead and call Application.Run to set up a message loop for
the form to show when the thread is started. The following is a sample.
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
List<Form> forms = new List<Form>();
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Thread t1= new Thread(new ParameterizedThreadStart(ShowForm));
Form frm2 = new Form2();
forms.Add(frm2);
t1.Start(frm2);
Thread t2 = new Thread(new ParameterizedThreadStart(ShowForm));
Form frm3 = new Form3();
forms.Add(frm3);
t2.Start(frm3);
}
private void ShowForm(object frm)
{
Application.Run(frm as Form);
}
}
We need to close the instances of Form2 and Form3 explicitly when the
instance of Form1 is closed, because the instances of Form2 and Form3 are
running in other threads. Note the cross-thread operation problem when
closing the Fom2 and Form3 instances from Form1. The following is a sample.
public class BaseForm : Form
{
public delegate void CloseFormDelegate();
public void CloseForm()
{
if (this.InvokeRequired)
{
this.Invoke(new CloseFormDelegate(CloseForm));
}
else
{
this.Close();
}
}
}
public partial class Form2 : BaseForm
{ ....}
public partial class Form3 : BaseForm
{ ....}
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
this.FormClosing += new
FormClosingEventHandler(Form1_FormClosing);
}
void Form1_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
for (int i = 0; i < forms.Count; i++)
{
(forms
as BaseForm).CloseForm();
}
}
....
}
What I shall point out is that it's not true that the more threads you
create in your applicaion, the more efficient the application will be.
Managing multiple threads will consume much CPU and memory. At last, I
suggest that you only update the necessary data in the DataGridView each
time, rather than refreshing all the data in the grid.
Hope this helps.
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.
Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support
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