TopMost property not working with async

Question

/HERE ALL WORKING FINE

public void main_click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//DO something
test2();
//DO something
}

//Here the popup opens at the most front but gets backside when I click on another window of my application.
//I want to make poptest1 at the front so that the user can't click on other windows like happens in without async method.

public async void mainAsync_click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//DO something
await Task.Run(() => { test2(); });
//DO something
}

public void test2()
{
poptest1.TopMost = true;
poptest1.BringToFront();
poptest1.TopLevel = true;
poptest1.ShowDialog();
}

Answer 1

Hi KumarThrainderMIND-0302,
When you use Task.Run to run a method, Task gets a thread from threadpool to run that method. So from the UI thread's perspective, it is "asynchronous" as it doesn't block UI thread.
So if you want to make form(poptest1) at the front so that the user can't click on other windows, there is no need to use Task.Run() in your code.
And async methods won't block the current thread, so you can use them from the UI thread directly.
Please refer to the following code:

Form2 f2 = new Form2();  
private async void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)  
{  
    await this.test2();       
}  
  
public async Task test2()  
{  
    f2.BringToFront();  
    f2.TopMost = true;  
    f2.TopLevel = true;  
    f2.ShowDialog();  
    await Task.Delay(1000);  
}  

Best Regards,
Daniel Zhang

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