Is it appropriate to extend Control to provide consistently safe Invoke/BeginInvoke functionality?

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You should create Begin and End extension methods as well. And if you use generics, you can make the call look a little nicer.

public static class ControlExtensions
{
  public static void InvokeEx<T>(this T @this, Action<T> action)
    where T : Control
  {
    if (@this.InvokeRequired)
    {
      @this.Invoke(action, new object[] { @this });
    }
    else
    {
      if ([email protected])
        return;
      if (@this.IsDisposed)
        throw new ObjectDisposedException("@this is disposed.");

      action(@this);
    }
  }

  public static IAsyncResult BeginInvokeEx<T>(this T @this, Action<T> action)
    where T : Control
  {
    return @this.BeginInvoke((Action)delegate { @this.InvokeEx(action); });
  }

  public static void EndInvokeEx<T>(this T @this, IAsyncResult result)
    where T : Control
  {
    @this.EndInvoke(result);
  }
}

Now your calls get a little shorter and cleaner:

this.lblTimeDisplay.InvokeEx(l => l.Text = this.task.Duration.ToString());

var result = this.BeginInvokeEx(f => f.Text = "Different Title");
// ... wait
this.EndInvokeEx(result);

And with regards to Components, just invoke on the form or container itself.

this.InvokeEx(f => f.toolStripItem1.Text = "Hello World");

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