ContextSwitchDeadlock was detected

[Art W.]

Hello Everyone:

I keep getting the following message when I run my program. I have no idea what it means or what I need to do to fix?

ContextSwitchDeadlock was detected
Message: The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x1b2008 to COM context 0x1b2178 for 60 seconds. The thread that owns the destination context/apartment is most likely either doing a non pumping wait or processing a very long running operation without pumping Windows messages. This situation generally has a negative performance impact and may even lead to the application becoming non responsive or memory usage accumulating continually over time. To avoid this problem, all single threaded apartment (STA) threads should use pumping wait primitives (such as CoWaitForMultipleHandles) and routinely pump messages during long running operations.


Thanks

Art

[.paul.]

do you have any long running loops in your program?

[.paul.]

use application.doevents, or a backgroundworker. for example:

for x as integer = 1 to 1000000
    doSomething
    'insert doevents here
    application.doevents
next

[Art W.]

Hi Everyone:

Yes I have two loops running