I still can't get it to work. here is my code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Threading;
namespace SmartBackup
{
public partial class FibonacciForm : Form
{
private int numberToCompute = 0;
private int highestPercentageReached = 0;
private System.Windows.Forms.NumericUpDown numericUpDown1;
private System.Windows.Forms.Button startAsyncButton;
private System.Windows.Forms.Button cancelAsyncButton;
private System.Windows.Forms.ProgressBar progressBar1;
private System.Windows.Forms.Label resultLabel;
private System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker backgroundWorker1;
public FibonacciForm()
{
InitializeComponent();
InitializeBackgoundWorker();
}
// Set up the BackgroundWorker object by
// attaching event handlers.
private void InitializeBackgoundWorker()
{
backgroundWorker1.DoWork +=
new DoWorkEventHandler(backgroundWorker1_DoWork);
backgroundWorker1.RunWorkerCompleted +=
new RunWorkerCompletedEventHandler(
backgroundWorker1_RunWorkerCompleted);
backgroundWorker1.ProgressChanged +=
new ProgressChangedEventHandler(
backgroundWorker1_ProgressChanged);
}
private void startAsyncButton_Click(System.Object sender,
System.EventArgs e)
{
// Reset the text in the result label.
resultLabel.Text = String.Empty;
// Disable the UpDown control until
// the asynchronous operation is done.
this.numericUpDown1.Enabled = false;
// Disable the Start button until
// the asynchronous operation is done.
this.startAsyncButton.Enabled = false;
// Enable the Cancel button while
// the asynchronous operation runs.
this.cancelAsyncButton.Enabled = true;
// Get the value from the UpDown control.
numberToCompute = (int)numericUpDown1.Value;
// Reset the variable for percentage tracking.
highestPercentageReached = 0;
// Start the asynchronous operation.
backgroundWorker1.RunWorkerAsync(numberToCompute);
}
private void cancelAsyncButton_Click(System.Object sender,
System.EventArgs e)
{
// Cancel the asynchronous operation.
this.backgroundWorker1.CancelAsync();
// Disable the Cancel button.
cancelAsyncButton.Enabled = false;
}
// This event handler is where the actual,
// potentially time-consuming work is done.
private void backgroundWorker1_DoWork(object sender,
DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
// Get the BackgroundWorker that raised this event.
BackgroundWorker worker = sender as BackgroundWorker;
// Assign the result of the computation
// to the Result property of the DoWorkEventArgs
// object. This is will be available to the
// RunWorkerCompleted eventhandler.
e.Result = ComputeFibonacci((int)e.Argument, worker, e);
}
// This event handler deals with the results of the
// background operation.
private void backgroundWorker1_RunWorkerCompleted(
object sender, RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
{
// First, handle the case where an exception was thrown.
if (e.Error != null)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Error.Message);
}
else if (e.Cancelled)
{
// Next, handle the case where the user canceled
// the operation.
// Note that due to a race condition in
// the DoWork event handler, the Cancelled
// flag may not have been set, even though
// CancelAsync was called.
resultLabel.Text = "Canceled";
}
else
{
// Finally, handle the case where the operation
// succeeded.
resultLabel.Text = e.Result.ToString();
}
// Enable the UpDown control.
this.numericUpDown1.Enabled = true;
// Enable the Start button.
startAsyncButton.Enabled = true;
// Disable the Cancel button.
cancelAsyncButton.Enabled = false;
}
// This event handler updates the progress bar.
private void backgroundWorker1_ProgressChanged(object sender,
ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
{
this.progressBar1.Value = e.ProgressPercentage;
}
// This is the method that does the actual work. For this
// example, it computes a Fibonacci number and
// reports progress as it does its work.
long ComputeFibonacci(int n, BackgroundWorker worker,
DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
// The parameter n must be >= 0 and <= 91.
// Fib(n), with n > 91, overflows a long.
if ((n < 0) || (n > 91))
{
throw new ArgumentException(
"value must be >= 0 and <= 91", "n");
}
long result = 0;
// Abort the operation if the user has canceled.
// Note that a call to CancelAsync may have set
// CancellationPending to true just after the
// last invocation of this method exits, so this
// code will not have the opportunity to set the
// DoWorkEventArgs.Cancel flag to true. This means
// that RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs.Cancelled will
// not be set to true in your RunWorkerCompleted
// event handler. This is a race condition.
if (worker.CancellationPending)
{
e.Cancel = true;
}
else
{
if (n < 2)
{
result = 1;
}
else
{
result = ComputeFibonacci(n - 1, worker, e) +
ComputeFibonacci(n - 2, worker, e);
}
// Report progress as a percentage of the total task.
int percentComplete =
(int)((float)n / (float)numberToCompute * 100);
if (percentComplete > highestPercentageReached)
{
highestPercentageReached = percentComplete;
worker.ReportProgress(percentComplete);
}
}
return result;
}
}
}
namespace SmartBackup
{
partial class FibonacciForm
{
/// <summary>
/// Required designer variable.
/// </summary>
private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;
/// <summary>
/// Clean up any resources being used.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should be
disposed; otherwise, false.</param>
protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
{
if (disposing && (components != null))
{
components.Dispose();
}
base.Dispose(disposing);
}
#region Windows Form Designer generated code
/// <summary>
/// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
/// the contents of this method with the code editor.
/// </summary>
private void InitializeComponent()
{
this.numericUpDown1 = new System.Windows.Forms.NumericUpDown();
this.startAsyncButton = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
this.cancelAsyncButton = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
this.resultLabel = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
this.progressBar1 = new System.Windows.Forms.ProgressBar();
this.backgroundWorker1 = new
System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker();
((System.ComponentModel.ISupportInitialize)(this.numericUpDown1)).BeginInit();
this.SuspendLayout();
//
// numericUpDown1
//
this.numericUpDown1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(16, 16);
this.numericUpDown1.Maximum = new decimal(new int[] {
91,
0,
0,
0});
this.numericUpDown1.Minimum = new decimal(new int[] {
1,
0,
0,
0});
this.numericUpDown1.Name = "numericUpDown1";
this.numericUpDown1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(80, 20);
this.numericUpDown1.TabIndex = 0;
this.numericUpDown1.Value = new decimal(new int[] {
1,
0,
0,
0});
//
// startAsyncButton
//
this.startAsyncButton.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(16, 72);
this.startAsyncButton.Name = "startAsyncButton";
this.startAsyncButton.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(120, 23);
this.startAsyncButton.TabIndex = 1;
this.startAsyncButton.Text = "Start Async";
this.startAsyncButton.Click += new
System.EventHandler(this.startAsyncButton_Click);
//
// cancelAsyncButton
//
this.cancelAsyncButton.Enabled = false;
this.cancelAsyncButton.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(153,
72);
this.cancelAsyncButton.Name = "cancelAsyncButton";
this.cancelAsyncButton.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(119, 23);
this.cancelAsyncButton.TabIndex = 2;
this.cancelAsyncButton.Text = "Cancel Async";
this.cancelAsyncButton.Click += new
System.EventHandler(this.cancelAsyncButton_Click);
//
// resultLabel
//
this.resultLabel.BorderStyle =
System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.Fixed3D;
this.resultLabel.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(112, 16);
this.resultLabel.Name = "resultLabel";
this.resultLabel.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(160, 23);
this.resultLabel.TabIndex = 3;
this.resultLabel.Text = "(no result)";
this.resultLabel.TextAlign =
System.Drawing.ContentAlignment.MiddleCenter;
//
// progressBar1
//
this.progressBar1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(18, 48);
this.progressBar1.Name = "progressBar1";
this.progressBar1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(256, 8);
this.progressBar1.Step = 2;
this.progressBar1.TabIndex = 4;
//
// backgroundWorker1
//
this.backgroundWorker1.WorkerReportsProgress = true;
this.backgroundWorker1.WorkerSupportsCancellation = true;
this.backgroundWorker1.DoWork += new
System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventHandler(this.backgroundWorker1_DoWork);
this.backgroundWorker1.RunWorkerCompleted += new
System.ComponentModel.RunWorkerCompletedEventHandler(this.backgroundWorker1_RunWorkerCompleted);
this.backgroundWorker1.ProgressChanged += new
System.ComponentModel.ProgressChangedEventHandler(this.backgroundWorker1_ProgressChanged);
//
// FibonacciForm
//
this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(292, 118);
this.Controls.Add(this.progressBar1);
this.Controls.Add(this.resultLabel);
this.Controls.Add(this.cancelAsyncButton);
this.Controls.Add(this.startAsyncButton);
this.Controls.Add(this.numericUpDown1);
this.Name = "FibonacciForm";
this.Text = "Fibonacci Calculator";
((System.ComponentModel.ISupportInitialize)(this.numericUpDown1)).EndInit();
this.ResumeLayout(false);
}
#endregion
}
}
