EDIT As per SilverHorse's update comment the solution you want then should look like.
You only want to use Invoke or BeginInvoke for the bare minimum piece of work required to change the UI. Your "heavy" method should execute on another thread (e.g. Via BackgroundWorker) but then using Control. Invoke/Control.
BeginInvoke just to update the UI. That way your UI thread will be free to handle UI events etc.
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