Adding FeatureLayer on a thread crashes ArcMap even when debugging.

[ErnieSalazar]

Hi Guys.  I am creating an extension for ArcMap 10.2 using Visual Studio 2012 C# WPF.  Consider this code snippet:

//Open the CSV file
IWorkspaceFactory WorkspaceFactory = new TextFileWorkspaceFactoryClass();
IFeatureWorkspace FeatureWorkspace = (IFeatureWorkspace)WorkspaceFactory.OpenFromFile(FilePath, 0);
ITable Table = FeatureWorkspace.OpenTable(FileName);

IStandaloneTable StandaloneTable = new StandaloneTableClass();
StandaloneTable.Table = Table;

IMap Map = MxDocument.FocusMap;
IStandaloneTableCollection StandaloneTableCollection = (IStandaloneTableCollection)Map;
StandaloneTableCollection.AddStandaloneTable(StandaloneTable);

//Create the Event Layer of the data source
IDataset Dataset = (IDataset)StandaloneTable;
IName TableName = Dataset.FullName;

IXYEvent2FieldsProperties XYEvent2FieldsProperties = new XYEvent2FieldsPropertiesClass();
XYEvent2FieldsProperties.XFieldName = ColumnX;
XYEvent2FieldsProperties.YFieldName = ColumnY;
XYEvent2FieldsProperties.ZFieldName = String.Empty;

IXYEventSourceName XYEventSourceName = new XYEventSourceNameClass();
XYEventSourceName.EventProperties = XYEvent2FieldsProperties;
XYEventSourceName.EventTableName = TableName;
XYEventSourceName.SpatialReference = SpatialReference;

IName XYEventName = (IName)XYEventSourceName;
IXYEventSource XYEventSource = (IXYEventSource)XYEventName.Open();

//Map the Event Layer
IFeatureLayer FeatureLayer = new FeatureLayerClass();
FeatureLayer.FeatureClass = (IFeatureClass)XYEventSource;
FeatureLayer.Name = FileName;

//Add the layer extension (this is done so that when you edit the layer's Source properties and click the Set Data Source button, the Add XY Events Dialog appears)
ILayerExtensions LayerExtensions = (ILayerExtensions)FeatureLayer;
LayerExtensions.AddExtension(new XYDataSourcePageExtensionClass());

//Add it to the MXD
Map.AddLayer(FeatureLayer);
FeatureLayer.Selectable = true;
MxDocument.UpdateContents();
MxDocument.ActiveView.Refresh();

This is from a function in a class that is called from the UI Form.  What I am doing is creating a CSV file from a .Net DataTable (not in the above code), adding the CSV as a Table in Sources of the TOC, and them mapping the Table as Layer (the last 4 lines above). 

This all works fine if I do it on the main UI thread of the Form when the user clicks a button.  But what I would like to do is it put it on a TPL thread since it can be a time consuming process and here is when I run into problems.  The above code will CRASH arcmap completely.  It cannot even be trapped.

I noticed two things.  One, the crash happens on the line "Map.AddLayer(FeatureLayer);" so when it tries to add to the layer.  So I removed that line just to see what the Table in sources looks like.  Second, looking at that Table I notice that if I right click it the options to Open and Display are lit-up for a second and then grey out.  Again, this only happens when on a Thread.

Another thing to note is that when I break on any of the lines of code above in the Thread and inspect the objects I get an error "The function evaluation requires all threads to run".  I would think this is more an issue with Visual Studio and the implicit evaluation settings so it should not affect arcmap and it certainly should not cause it to crash.  But I thought I would mention it.

Thanks for any help.

Ernie