One of the challenges in building a UI application is correctly using the UI thread. This is a shared resource, and so any misuse has the potential to have global application effect. The most common form of misuse is using the UI thread for a long period of time. In severe cases this causes the application...

On a WinForms project in the past we were working on scalability and performance. One of the things we discovered was that individually invoking items to the UI thread was a bottleneck. The theory is that the each time one does a BeginInvoke it adds a message to the Message queue. This adds overhead...