Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Passing Parameters

In many cases, you might need to pass data to new threads. You can do this by creating an instance of the ParameterizedThreadStart delegate, which requires an argument of type Object that you can use for sharing your data. The following code demonstrates how you create a thread with parameters:

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Private Sub threadWithParameters(parameter As Object)    Dim newThread As New Thread(New  _                                ParameterizedThreadStart(AddressOf _                                executeThreadWithParameters))    newThread.Start(parameter)End Sub

Notice how the Thread.Start method has an overload that takes the specified parameter as the data. Because such data is of type Object, you need to convert ...