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title: "Asynchronous Execution in Visual Basic .NET"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/27/asynchronous-execution-in-visual-basic-net.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/27/asynchronous-execution-in-visual-basic-net.html"
published: "2003-07-27T20:10:00"
updated: "2003-07-27T20:10:00"
tags: ["Cool Articles"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Nice MSDN article: Asynchronous Execution in Visual Basic .NET besides the obvious \"How can my secondary thread talk to the GUI without hanging the application\", there is a wide discussion on threads, ProcessThread,…"
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# Asynchronous Execution in Visual Basic .NET

By Roy Osherove July 27, 2003 In [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 27, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Nice MSDN article:

[Asynchronous Execution in Visual Basic .NET](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbasync.asp)

besides the obvious "How can my secondary  thread talk to the GUI without hanging the application", there is a wide discussion on threads, ProcessThread, ThreadPool, threads and delegates, and much more.

Good stuff.

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