Is there a way to have a tread join my main thread for a certain amount of time, then have it go back to being separate? I need it to do this so that the worker thread can modify the main form safely.

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I have had success using the BackgroundWorker component. It allows you to spin off some task to another thread, but it has events that are fired within the "parent" thread allowing thread safe updates to your user interface.

Here's an article explaining it further:

http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet...undworker.html

-Peter

Thanks!

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