Well, the situation is that I’m going to use Timer in a simple quiz MAUI app. And I wanted to show timer changing numbers as a Button text. It works well on WinForms app, but on MAUI it caused system.runtime.interopservices.comexception 0x8001010e rpc_e_wrong_thread exception.
So, is it possible to do that and if yes how to?
Here is a method where the exception occures:
private void Timer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
timePerQuestion--;
//next line causes an exception
sendAnswerButton.Text = $"Send ({timePerQuestion} {secondsSpelling(timePerQuestion)})";
if (timePerQuestion == 0)
{
timer.Stop();
SendAnswer_Clicked(sender, new EventArgs());
}
}
I’m new to .NET MAUI and have no clue how to deal with multithreading in it.
>Solution :
If you want to update the UI, you need to run the code on the main thread. So you can try to use the BeginInvokeOnMainThread, such as:
MainThread.BeginInvokeOnMainThread(()=>
{
sendAnswerButton.Text = $"Send ({timePerQuestion} {secondsSpelling(timePerQuestion)})";
});
For more information about the Main thread, you can refert to Which is better MainThread.Being/InvokeVS Dispatcher.Dispatch.