I don’t think that what you ask is really what you want but creating a message pump per thread is easy, you just have to call Application.Run once per thread. static class Program { /// <summary> /// The main entry point for the application. /// </summary> [STAThread] static void Main() { Thread t1 = new … Read more
BlockingCollection will indeed pump while blocking. I’ve learnt that while answering the following question, which has some interesting details about STA pumping: StaTaskScheduler and STA thread message pumping However, it will pump a very limited undisclosed set of COM-specific messages, same as the other APIs you listed. It won’t pump general purpose Win32 messages (a … Read more
A message loop is a small piece of code that exists in any native Windows program. It roughly looks like this: MSG msg; while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) { TranslateMessage(&msg); DispatchMessage(&msg); } The GetMessage() Win32 API retrieves a message from Windows. Your program typically spends 99.9% of its time there, waiting for Windows to tell … Read more