How to “kill” background worker completely?

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You can use something like this (for more information about aborting managed threads and about ThreadAbortException see “Plumbing the Depths of the ThreadAbortException Using Rotor (Web archive)” by Chris Sells):

public class AbortableBackgroundWorker : BackgroundWorker
{

    private Thread workerThread;

    protected override void OnDoWork(DoWorkEventArgs e)
    {
        workerThread = Thread.CurrentThread;
        try
        {
            base.OnDoWork(e);
        }
        catch (ThreadAbortException)
        {
            e.Cancel = true; //We must set Cancel property to true!
            Thread.ResetAbort(); //Prevents ThreadAbortException propagation
        }
    }

 
    public void Abort()
    {
        if (workerThread != null)
        {
            workerThread.Abort();
            workerThread = null;
        }
    }
}

Usage:

backgroundWorker1 = new AbortableBackgroundWorker();
//...
backgroundWorker1.RunWorkerAsync();

if (backgroundWorker1.IsBusy == true)
{
    backgroundWorker1.Abort();
    backgroundWorker1.Dispose();
}

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