How to stop BackgroundWorker correctly

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CancelAsync doesn’t actually abort your thread or anything like that. It sends a message to the worker thread that work should be cancelled via BackgroundWorker.CancellationPending. Your DoWork delegate that is being run in the background must periodically check this property and handle the cancellation itself.

The tricky part is that your DoWork delegate is probably blocking, meaning that the work you do on your DataSource must complete before you can do anything else (like check for CancellationPending). You may need to move your actual work to yet another async delegate (or maybe better yet, submit the work to the ThreadPool), and have your main worker thread poll until this inner worker thread triggers a wait state, OR it detects CancellationPending.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.backgroundworker.cancelasync.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/BackgroundWorker_Threads.aspx

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