Object is currently in use elsewhere

[Bisujaksha]

hi,

I often receive an InvalidOperationException with the message 'Object is currently in use elsewhere' whenever I try to use brushes or pens over multiple threads. However, there are no problems when I perform the same thing by using fonts. Why is this happening using brushes or pens then.....what is the problem ? please suggest some suitable solutions....

[Praetor]

I would suggest you to clone each object on different threads since using multiple objects on threads will cause multi-threading which is the main root of this exception error, I think...

[Katty]

I was also getting the same InvalidOperationException when I used to close my forms. My solution was to make sure that all my controls got disposed in the Dispose method of my UserControls. Here's the code :

protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
         {
           if (disposing)
           {
             foreach (Control control in this.Controls)
             {
               IDisposable disposable = control as IDisposable;
               if (disposable != null)
               {
                 disposable.Dispose();
               }
             }
             if (components != null)
             components.Dispose();
            }
           base.Dispose(disposing);
         }

[kelfro]

I don't know whether someone has got the perfect solution to this problem yet....I would simply suggest you that - do not use multi-threading....

[Reegan]

This error normally occurs while using automatic double buffering on
.NET version 1.1. It doesn't mean that it doesn't exists on the other versions.

You can handle the exception by perform manual double buffering..