Refreshing the UI in WPF

If you are using WPF and missing the 'Application.DoEvents();' method, you know from Windows Forms to refresh the UI, here is a solution for you. I had the same problem and was looking for a way to refresh the UI in runtime.


After some looking around I found a solution that worked for me. There is just one problem: you need some more code than before. So I made a function for this and copy it into each WPF-project. This way I just need to call 'DoEvents();'. Hope it will work for you, too.

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private object ExitFrame(object f)
{
 ((DispatcherFrame)f).Continue = false;
 return null;
}
private void DoEvents()
{
 DispatcherFrame frame = new DispatcherFrame();
 Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher.BeginInvoke(DispatcherPriority.Background,
 new DispatcherOperationCallback(ExitFrame), frame);
 Dispatcher.PushFrame(frame);
}

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