Kevin Gosse • 2/28/2020

Switching back to the UI thread in WPF/UWP, in modern C#

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This technical article explores a modern C# solution for switching execution to the UI thread in WPF/UWP applications. It contrasts traditional Dispatcher methods with a cleaner approach using custom awaiters and async/await patterns, providing code examples for a reusable `SwitchToUi` extension method.

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