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Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook 100 recipes to build rich desktop client applications on Windows

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Preface 1. WPF Fundamentals 2. Using WPF Standard Controls FREE CHAPTER 3. Layouts and Panels 4. Working with Data Bindings 5. Using Custom Controls and User Controls 6. Using Styles, Templates, and Triggers 7. Using Resources and MVVM Patterns 8. Working with Animations 9. Using WCF Services 10. Debugging and Threading 11. Interoperability with Win32 and WinForm 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding cancelation support to long running threads

When you execute a long running process on a different thread, to keep the UI responsive during the operation, you may want to provide a functionality to cancel the operation. This can be done on an on-demand basis.

In this recipe, we will learn how to add cancellation support to the existing long running operation that we have built in the previous recipe.

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