UtilForms Class

This doesn't show the window so make sure you call Show or set Visible property to after calling AnimateWindow(IWin32Window, Int32, WindowAnimation).

This method avoids cross-threading exceptions.

This method avoids cross-threading exceptions.

This method greatly boosts the performance of any application in difference to DoEvents method.

When calling DoEvents to make the UI responsive, it generally decreases application performance;

however, using this method, we make sure there is at least one input event (keyboard or mouse) that needs to be processed before internally calling DoEvents.

Double buffering indicates whether a control should redraw its surface using a secondary buffer to reduce or prevent flicker.

Calling this method during a long-running operation will prevent the Managed Debugging Assistant (MDA) 'ContextSwitchDeadlock' error to occur while debugging your solution.

This error may occur when the thread that owns the destination context/apartment is processing a very long-running operation without pumping Windows messages for a specific period of time.

For example, you will use this method while performing a long-running operation with COM objects (eg. inside a "infinite" loop) that is blocking the UI thread,

so it is unabling the UI thread to pump window messages as they arrive, causing the 'ContextSwitchDeadlock' error to occur in the Visual Studio debugger after 60 seconds.

For example, comparing Point(x:=0, y:=1) with Point(x:=0, y:=2) will return PanSouth. (PanEast, PanWest, PanNorth, PanSouth, etc).

Note that the FormBorderStyle form's property should be set to None.

If the conversion fails, an exception is thrown.
(Defined by ObjectExtensions)

If the conversion fails, returns the specified default value.
(Defined by ObjectExtensions)