.net - How to read textbox.Text value from another thread in WPF?

Question

In my WPF form I have a textbox.
When a timer elapses, the content of the textbox needs to be fetched.
The timer elapsed is working in a different thread then the UI.

The question is kinda two-fold:

• What is the easiest, most readable way to read the value from a GUI thread cross thread (I found several and they look too verbose for what should be something really basic)?
• Can't I read the text in a non-blocking way? I don't care about thread safety in this case.

--EDIT--
I used the Dispatcher, but had a more verbose call then what John had:

originalTextBox.Dispatcher.Invoke(
    DispatcherPriority.Normal, 
    (ThreadStart) delegate{text=originalTextBox.Text;}
);

Wouldn't mind even terser though. Accessing a text property should be utterly basic.

Answer 1

Oisin is right, you need to look at Dispatcher. Something like this should work, and is not too verbose:

System.Windows.Application.Current.Dispatcher.Invoke(
DispatcherPriority.Normal,
(ThreadStart)delegate { text = MyTextBox.Text; });