I’ve just posted up on GitHub a quick example WPF application that shows an MVVM-style progress meter dialog, using the .NET 4.5 Task Parallel Library (TPL). Specifically demonstrating:
- A progress meter using .NET 4 Tasks (not BackgroundWorkers).
- Async support.
- Cancelling of Tasks via CancellationTokens.
- Exception handling back to the original thread.
- Reporting background progress updates via IProgress<T>.
- Tasks can either be declared as void, or have a return value.
- Progress can be reported from multiple tasks chained together.
- An injectable, stateless IProgressDialogService, that can be injected for unit testing purposes.
- Using an attached property to hide the close button in the progress dialog’s title bar using Win32 interop.
- Using an attached property to implement a close window command using MVVM.
It’s based off a blog post by Jürgen Bäurle but converted to use MVVM and the TPL.
