topic Foreground/Background execution in ArcDesktop 10 in ArcObjects SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/foreground-background-execution-in-arcdesktop-10/m-p/556895#M15050 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm relatively new to working with ArcObjects &amp; ArcGIS, so please forgive me if I'm asking a question with an obvious answer.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm updating some COM extensions that were developed for ArcDesktop 9.x to work with Arc 10.&nbsp; Everything has gone pretty smoothly except for one problem.&nbsp; Some of the tools in the extension only work if they run in the foreground.&nbsp; I've figured out why this is, but fixing it so they run in the background ArcSOCP process will probably take a fair bit of time (which I don't have a lot of).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So my question is this... is there a way to programatically set a function/tool to force it to run in the foreground without disabling background processing globally?&nbsp; I've noticed that there is a "Always run in foreground" checkbox on tool properties, but this is greyed out and uncheckable.&nbsp; Is there some way of enabling this checkbox (programatically or otherwise)?&nbsp; If I can't set a tool to run in the foreground, is there some particular reason for that (tool chaining, for example)?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance for any help &amp; respones.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Mike</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:10:34 GMT MichaelSavigny 2010-08-04T18:10:34Z Foreground/Background execution in ArcDesktop 10 https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/foreground-background-execution-in-arcdesktop-10/m-p/556895#M15050 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm relatively new to working with ArcObjects &amp; ArcGIS, so please forgive me if I'm asking a question with an obvious answer.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm updating some COM extensions that were developed for ArcDesktop 9.x to work with Arc 10.&nbsp; Everything has gone pretty smoothly except for one problem.&nbsp; Some of the tools in the extension only work if they run in the foreground.&nbsp; I've figured out why this is, but fixing it so they run in the background ArcSOCP process will probably take a fair bit of time (which I don't have a lot of).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So my question is this... is there a way to programatically set a function/tool to force it to run in the foreground without disabling background processing globally?&nbsp; I've noticed that there is a "Always run in foreground" checkbox on tool properties, but this is greyed out and uncheckable.&nbsp; Is there some way of enabling this checkbox (programatically or otherwise)?&nbsp; If I can't set a tool to run in the foreground, is there some particular reason for that (tool chaining, for example)?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance for any help &amp; respones.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Mike</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:10:34 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/foreground-background-execution-in-arcdesktop-10/m-p/556895#M15050 MichaelSavigny 2010-08-04T18:10:34Z