Binding datagridview when ever data is available in a list in a background thread

   1: public Form1()

   2:         {

   3:             InitializeComponent();

   4:  

   5:             // Initilaize the customer data table

   6:             dtCustomers = new DataTable();

   7:             dtCustomers.Columns.Clear();

   8:             dtCustomers.Columns.Add("FirstName");

   9:             dtCustomers.Columns.Add("LastName");

  10:             dtCustomers.Columns.Add("Address");

  11:             // set datasource of the datagridview

  12:             dataGridView1.DataSource = dtCustomers;

  13:             // Initialize the thread with the thread function

  14:             tBindGrid = new Thread(GetAllCustomers);

  15:  

  16:             tBindGrid.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);

  17:             // Start the thread 

  18:             tBindGrid.Start();

  19:         }

  20:  

  21:         // Thread function

  22:         private void GetAllCustomers()

  23:         {

  24:             DataTable dt = new DataTable();

  25:             dt.Columns.Clear();

  26:  

  27:             dt.Columns.Add("FirstName");

  28:             dt.Columns.Add("LastName");

  29:             dt.Columns.Add("Address");

  30:  

  31:             ChannelFactory factory = new ChannelFactory("localhost");

  32:             IService service = factory.CreateChannel();

  33:  

  34:             System.ServiceModel.Channels.Message message = service.GetCustomers();

  35:  

  36:             foreach (List customers in GetAllCustomers(message))

  37:             {

  38:                 foreach (Customer item in customers)

  39:                 {

  40:                     DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();

  41:                     dr["FirstName"] = item.FirstName;

  42:                     dr["LastName"] = item.LastName;

  43:                     dr["Address"] = item.Address;

  44:                     

  45:                     dt.Rows.Add(dr);

  46:                 }

  47:                 bind_DataTable_to_GridView(dt);

  48:                 dt.Clear();

  49:             }

  50:         }

  51:  

  52:         // function for binding the datatable datagridview in seperate thread

  53:         private void bind_DataTable_to_GridView(DataTable dt)

  54:         {

  55:  

  56:             if (dataGridView1.InvokeRequired)

  57:             {

  58:                 Bind_DataTable_to_GridView_Delegate del = new Bind_DataTable_to_GridView_Delegate(bind_DataTable_to_GridView);

  59:                 dataGridView1.Invoke(del, new object[] { dt });

  60:             }

  61:             else

  62:             {

  63:                 dtCustomers.Merge(dt);

  64:                 dataGridView1.AutoSizeColumnsMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode.AllCells;               //Autosizes the gridview 

  65:                 foreach (DataGridViewColumn dgvcol in dataGridView1.Columns)

  66:                 {

  67:                     dgvcol.SortMode = DataGridViewColumnSortMode.NotSortable;

  68:                 }

  69:             }

  70:         }