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Using the Control.Invoke() method you may move the execution of a method or function from a background thread to the thread that the control was created on, which is usually the UI (User Interface) thread. By doing so your code will be queued to run on the control's thread instead, which removes the...

If we try to change an object on the UI thread from a different thread we will get a cross-thread operation exception: Private Sub Button_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyButton.Click ' Cross thread-operation exception as the assignment is executed on a different thread '...