"yadavab" <yadavab@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
> I want to open up a number of child forms in my main mdi container form,
> but
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> It
> just hangs. Is this how things are normally done or is there another way?
Show all the forms in the same thread (typically the applications main UI
thread). Instance members of Windows Forms controls/forms are not safe for
multithreading, so you cannot create and show an MDI child form in a
separate thread.
More information:
Multithreading in Windows Forms applications
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=multithreading&lang=en>

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