“The calling thread must be STA, because many UI components require this” error when creating a WPF pop-up Window in thread

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For the thread that you’re trying to start the GUI element in, you need to set the apartment state of the thread to STA BEFORE you start it.

Example:

myThread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
myThread.Start();

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