Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET Programmer's Cookbook

Perform an Asynchronous Task with the Thread Class

Problem

You want to execute a task on another thread and be able to control that thread’s priority, state, and so on.

Solution

Create a new System.Threading.Thread object that references the code you want to execute asynchronously, and use the Start method.

Discussion

The Thread object allows you to write multithreaded code with a finer degree of control than that provided by asynchronous delegates. As with delegates, the Thread class can only point to a single method. However, unlike delegates, the Thread class can only execute a method that takes no parameters and has no return value. (In other words, it must match the signature of the System.Threading.ThreadStart delegate.) If you need to send data ...