Thread is Dead

At this point, it should be clear that Tasks are far superior to BackgroundWorkers. In fact, both Thread and BackgroundWorker just make things harder.

This post (and most of my other async posts) are from a talk I gave in October 2011 called “Thread is Dead”. Here’s the punchline slide:

Friends don’t let friends use Thread. Or BackgroundWorker. It is time for these classes to go the way of “lock (this)” and “Application.DoEvents”.

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OK, OK, you can use a thread if you need to implement a specific scheduling context for a task that isn’t already provided. But the only case I can think of for this is if you need an STA context - and in that case, you can use AsyncContextThread.