Illegal Cross Thread Operation?

I see many forumposts solving this problem by simply adding the CheckForIllegalCrossThreadOperations=false; While this is a totally legit workaround, it is highly thread-unsafe, and should only be used for debugging purposes. To be able to update for instance form-components from another thread, you will need to use delegates and invoke. Sounds scary? Not really. A delegate is simply a "blueprint" that describes how a particular function or method should look. In C++ world, delegates are similar to Function pointers, but since we don't work with pointers in C# this is the closest we get. Still, function pointer is not a correct definition, as the delegate won't point to a function unless you make it do so. Here's an example: