What's the best way to update an ObservableCollection from another thread?

I am using the BackgroundWorker to update an ObservableCollection but it gives this error:

"This type of CollectionView does not support changes to its SourceCollection from a thread different from the Disp开发者_高级运维atcher thread."

What's the best and most elegant way to solve this, with the least amount of work. I don't want to write low level lock-based multi-threading code.

I have seen some solutions online but they are several years old, so not sure what the latest consensus is for the solution of this problem.

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If you initialize the collection in the constructor it will be on the default Application thread.

To invoke the main thread you can do this:

Application.Current.Dispatcher.Invoke((Action)(() =>
    {
       //Do something here.
    }));

You have to cast the Anonymous delegate as an action otherwise it gets confused ¯\O_o/¯

If you are using the Async CTP then you can do this

Application.Current.Dispatcher.InvokeAsync(()=>
    {
       //Do something here.
    });

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If MVVM

public class MainWindowViewModel : ViewModel {

    private ICommand loadcommand;
    public ICommand LoadCommand { get { return loadcommand ?? (loadcommand = new RelayCommand(param => Load())); } }

    private ObservableCollection<ViewModel> items;
    public ObservableCollection<ViewModel> Items {
        get {
            if (items == null) {
                items = new ObservableCollection<ViewModel>();
            }
            return items;
        }
    }

    public void Load() {
        BackgroundWorker bgworker = new BackgroundWorker();
        bgworker.WorkerReportsProgress = true;
        bgworker.DoWork += (s, e) => {
            for(int i=0; i<10; i++) {
                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);
                bgworker.ReportProgress(i, new List<ViewModel>());
            }
            e.Result = null;
        };
        bgworker.ProgressChanged += (s, e) => {
            List<ViewModel> partialresult = (List<ViewModel>)e.UserState;
            partialresult.ForEach(i => {
                Items.Add(i);
            });
        };
        bgworker.RunWorkerCompleted += (s, e) => {
            //do anything here
        };
        bgworker.RunWorkerAsync();
    }
}

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You are using BGW, it was designed to solve your problem. But you'll have to use it properly, update the collection in a ProgressChanged or RunWorkerCompleted event handler. If that's what you are doing then you created the BGW instance on the wrong thread. It has to be done on the UI thread.

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Try This:

this.Dispatcher.Invoke(DispatcherPriority.Background, new Action(
() =>
{

 //Code

}));

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I had the same problem while reloading an observableCollection from an event (on DataReceived) raised by the serial port class. I used MVVM; I tried to update the collection with the BackgroundWorker, but it raised the "This type of CollectionView does not support changes to its SourceCollection from a thread different from the Dispatcher thread.". I tried many others solutions found online, but the only one that solved my problem (immediately!) was to use a multi-threading observable collection (I used the one in this post: Where do I get a thread-safe CollectionView?)