Multithreading in Visual Basic

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Visual Basic Programming Guide

Multithreading in Visual Basic

Visual Basic applications can perform multiple tasks simultaneously using multithreading (or free threading), a process in which individual tasks execute on separate threads. Multithreading improves the performance and responsiveness of your applications.

In This Section

Multithreaded Applications: Describes how to create and use threads.
Thread States: Describes how to determine and change a thread's state.
Parameters and Return Values for Multithreaded Procedures: Describes how to pass and return parameters with multithreaded applications.
Multithreading with Forms and Controls: Covers special considerations when working with multithreading, forms, and controls.
Walkthrough: Multithreading: Shows how to create a simple multithreaded application.

Related Sections

Advanced Multithreading with Visual Basic: Lists topics that describe how to manage threads in multithreaded applications
Multithreading in Components: Provides links to topics that describe how to use multithreading in component programming.
Walkthrough: Authoring a Simple Multithreaded Component with Visual Basic: Shows how to create multithreaded components.