Clipboard access in BackgroundWorker

Question

I have a C# 3.0 application that needs the GUI (WPF) to be constantly updated while doing a lot of work in the background. I solved that problem with a BackgroundWorker object. The BW works flawlessly untill I try to get text from the Clipboard via System.Windows.Clipboard.GetText(); When I try to get anything from the clipboard object I get this error: Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. It is my understanding (could be wrong) that BackgroundWorkers are only MTA and cannot have an apartment set to them. And Application.OleReqired() does nothing either. So my question is. Is there any sort of workaround to access COM object from a BackgroundWorker?

shi yulun · Answer

thanks a lot

Charlie · Answer

Solved my problem by just avoiding backgroundWorkers and using straight threads or the thread pool. Little more code to get it synced up but not a big deal.