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• Asim Ahmed

  I'm not sure what he's doing with an infinite loop but try putting Application.DoEvents() in your loop.
  
  However, as the other guys said a backgroundworker object has all the thread stuff built in so you don't have to worry much about it, or simply create a thread of your own.
  
  

• Karl Diethrick

  I think so also.. you have to realize that VB was originally made to make programming possible for those who don't really know how... so in vb5 it may work but it is not that C# is making it difficult it is just that you need to do it the right way which in the end will be much cleaner and better implemented.
  
  Also you may want to consider how often you need to draw whatever it is you are drawing.  And only do it so many times per second etc.  I wouldn't just be drawing it as fast as your computer can handle.  Make it do it X amount of times a second by using a Sleep on that thread or a timer or something. (I'm not sure what you are doing, I'd have to think about the best way)
  
  

• Vlince

  you have to consider BackgroudnWorker component in order to execute task in child thread and keep main thread responsive.

  When you execute new query you cancel old one and execute new

  hope this helps

  
  
  

• Aaron77

  If you need to pass in parameters, you can wrap a thread in a class and add properties to the class for the parameters needed. Or you can use a ParameterizedThreadStart delegate to pass parameters to a thread.
  
  

• still_the_same

  It seems pretty complicated to create a new thread then i need to worry about passing parameter and so. in vb5, there's no such problem.
  
  

• Landarzar

  Application.DoEvents() seems to be the quickfix. but I need to draw some graphical components inside the loop and DoEvent() just disrupt the flow of the drawing. I guess thread is the best fix but it will take more work. What do you think
  
  
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