Async method

[CarlosLima]

Hi.
Since I have to process a document before printing or saving it as doc or pdf (to convert inlineui to span text), I'm trying to do it all on a backgroundworker to avoid locking UI.

Unfortuntantly I'm getting an exception on the format provider export (wich is called during the background code).

I have a variable with the Raddocument and I'm converting it to xaml using:

public static string GetXamlFormDocument(RadDocument document)
       {
           IDocumentFormatProvider exporter = new XamlFormatProvider();
           string result;
           using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())
           {
               exporter.Export(document, stream);
               stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
               StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream);
               result = reader.ReadToEnd();
           }
           return result;
       }

the cross-thread exception occours on the line exporter.Export(document, stream);

Is there any way to solve this?

Thanks,
Carlos

[CarlosLima]

Even using :

public static string GetXamlFormDocument(RadDocument document)
{
return new XamlFormatProvider().Export(document);
}

I still get cross-thread exception.. I don't understand because document is a variable and even being created on the ui thread it's not a control so it should be accessible.
Unless the problem is actually with the xamlformatprovider...

What I'm trying to do and I'm sure others have tried is to print and save the files but have a busy window on the screen while this happens. To make that possible, the code for saving or printing has to be run on another thread to avoid locking the UI.

Any idea how this can be accomplished?

Thanks, Carlos

[Boby]

Hi Carlos,
You are right, there is a bug in XamlFormatProvider that causes UnauthorizedAccessException ("Invalid cross-thread access.") when Export method is called from another thread. This will be fixed immediately and will be available to you in the next LIB (latest internal build).
Points in your Telerik account has been updated in appreciation.

Greetings,
Boby
the Telerik team

[CarlosLima]

Thank you very much for your reply.
Carlos

[Morne]

I've just upgraded to version 2012.2.607.1040 of RadControls for Silverlight, and I still get the same cross-thead exception error with the HTML Format provider in Telerik.Windows.Documents.FormatProviders.Html.dll when trying to Import a string to HTML

[Boby]

Hello Morne,
Actually Carlos's question was about the exporting rather that importing. Importing wouldn't work as there are some dependencies between the document model and UI elements, which (UIElements) cannot be created in background thread. We have plans to decouple these and enable this scenario, but there is nothing scheduled yet.

Kind regards,
Boby
the Telerik team