frozen GUI

[the-Jerry]

Hi everybody,

I just started networking with VB.NET and was following that great tutorial at: http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/28083/1954?pf=true
Everything worked fine, until I decided to go from a Console application to WindowsForms. I thought let's try to give the server application a little facelifting and make a nice form for it.

However this brings, the problem, that the GUI starts to freeze as soons as the networking listing part starts.
I think I have heard about running network code and forms in two different threads, or use Backgroundworker, but I don't know either one and if my theory is right.
Can anybody please help me with this?

Thank you in advance.

 

[JohnH]

Doing socket programming in winforms requires knowledge of multi-threading. Search up some tutorials on the topic. All the asynchronous Begin../End.. class method pairs you encounter are also multithreading techniques.