I do that. Works fine for me.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 17:44, MojoDK <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have this code:
>
> string url="bla";
> ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem (delegate {
>    try {
>        WebClient client = new WebClient();
>        string html = client.DownloadString(url);
>        client.Dispose();
>        client = null;
>        // Do something with the result.
>    } catch (WebException e) {}
> });
>
> ... but it seams to slow/block the main UI anyway somehow.
>
> What is best practice in Monotouch to fetch a webpage HTML without blocking
> the UI? I need to fetch like 60 webpages (actually it's JSON results) as
> fast as possible and today I spin up 2 threads at a time.
>
> Can we do parallel in Monotouch?
>
> Thanks
> Mojo
>
>
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