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Executing a task with the background worker. Double Click on the BackgroundWorker control from the Toolbox This is how the BackgroundWorker appears after adding it. Double click on the added control to get the BackgroundWorker1_DoWork event and add the code to be executed when the BackgroundW...

You cannot access any GUI components from the BackgroudWorker. For example if you try to do something like this Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_DoWork(sender As Object, e As DoWorkEventArgs) TextBox1.Text = "Done" End Sub you will receive a runtime error saying that "Cross-thr...