WPF Databinding thread safety?

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Value changes fired by INotifyPropertyChanged are automatically marshalled back onto the dispatcher. (http://blog.lab49.com/archives/1166)

Fire this event on any thread you like…

Value changes fired by INotifyCollectionChanged are NOT reliably marshalled onto the dispatcher. (http://csharplive.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/wpf-data-binding-observablecollection-cross-thread-binding-support/)

If you need to update an observable collection from a different thread, follow the advice in this link

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