how to call a form from a thread

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Suhail Kaleem - 27 Oct 2004 08:07 GMT

Hi !
I can call form2 from main thread but when i create a child thread i cannot
call form like

Dim frm as new form2
frm.visible = true

now this only works in mian thread so my question how do call a form from a
child thread ?

Thanks

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP] - 27 Oct 2004 11:29 GMT

> I can call form2 from main thread but when i create a child thread i cannot
> call form like
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> now this only works in mian thread so my question how do call a form from a
> child thread ?

You need to marshall baack to the main UI thread. See
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/threads/winforms.shtml

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