Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Creating Threads

You create a new thread for performing an operation with an instance of the System.Threading.Thread class. The constructor of this class requires you to also specify an instance of the System.Threading.ThreadStart delegate that points to a method that can actually do the work. Then you invoke the Thread.Start instance method. The following code snippet demonstrates how you can create a new thread:

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Private Sub simpleThread()    Dim newThread As New Thread(New ThreadStart(AddressOf _                                                executeSimpleThread))    newThread.Start()End SubPrivate Sub executeSimpleThread()    Console.WriteLine("Running a separate thread")End Sub

To actually start the new thread, ...