Force a WPF control to refresh?

Question

We have two textBlocks like this: (we used .NET FW 3.0)

<TextBlock Grid.Column="0" Name="tabName" Style="{StaticResource textBlockBarStyle}" HorizontalAlignment="Left">
  <TextBlock.Margin>
      <Binding Converter="{StaticResource dpiConverter}">
          <Binding.ConverterParameter>
               <Thickness Left="3" Top="6" Right="0" Bottom="0"/>
          </Binding.ConverterParameter>
      </Binding>
  </TextBlock.Margin>
</TextBlock>

and

<TextBox  x:Name="txtBoxHelp" 
          IsReadOnly="True" Style="{DynamicResource txtBoxHelpStyle}" 
          IsTabStop="False" 
          Text="some text" MouseLeftButtonDown="txtBoxHelp_MouseLeftButtonDown">
     <TextBox.Margin>
        <Binding Converter="{StaticResource dpiConverter}">
            <Binding.ConverterParameter>
                 <Thickness Left="7" Top="0" Right="0" Bottom="0"/>
            </Binding.ConverterParameter>
        </Binding>
     </TextBox.Margin>
</TextBox>

These two textBlocks work well on other OS-es, but sometimes miss on the Windows XP Home Version with SP3. We have tried many ways to refresh these, but failed.

We tried:

1. UpdateLayout
2. InvalidateVisual
3. Changed the set Text property in code to binding mode.

How to force these controls to refresh?

Answer 1

Thread thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(delegate()
                {
                    Thread.Sleep(200); // this is important ...
                    try
                    {
                        this.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(DispatcherPriority.Send,
                            new NoArgsHandle(delegate()
                            {
                               // do something, set .Text = "some text"
                            }));
                    }
                    catch { }
                }));
                thread.Name = "thread-UpdateText";
                thread.Start();

It works well.