Flex 4: A multi threading solution

If you develop applications in Silverlight a lot, it becomes more and more annoying that Flex doesn’t support multi threading. This is particularly annoying when you are processing a long running task and need to display some progress. The problem is that you can’t do this task on a background thread, this means that the ui thread is busy processing your task and it can’t update the ui until your task is done, at which the progress of course is 100%. In this article I’m going to show how you can somewhat work around Flex’ and more precisely Flash’ lack

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