The code below is the complete program for a simple application that I want to periodically update a DataGridView every few seconds. I created a thread in my form load event handler, and moved this original Fill() call...

        this.alarmsTableAdapter.Fill(this.pattyDataSet.Alarms);

... from the event handler into the thread code, storing the object reference into myForm for the thread's use.

There are two problems with this program:

(1) The DataGridView never fills with data until I press my stop button (which invokes the toolStripButton1_Click handler below). The MessageBox.Show is what seems to force a refresh of the DataGridView.

(2) When my grid fills with data by pressing the stop button, only the very first cell of the grid gets a value. Yet when I do a preview data on the TableAdapter or the BindingSource I get multiple rows and columns filled in.

Can someone fix these? I am a C# newbie so I am betting that I am doing something wrong that should be obvious to the right pair of eyes...

    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        private static bool running = true;
        private static Form1 myForm;
        private Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(ThreadProc));

        public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            myForm = this;
            t.Start();
            Thread.Sleep(0);
        }

        public static void ThreadProc()
        {
            while (running)
            {
                myForm.alarmsTableAdapter.Fill(myForm.myDataSet.Alarms);
                Thread.Sleep(2000); // pause
            }
        }

        private void toolStripButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            running = false;
            t.Abort();
            t.Join(); // not sure if this is needed...
            MessageBox.Show("stopped");
        }
    }