I have a legacy WinForms Mdi App in VB.Net 2.0 which I am adding functionality to. One of the additions is a warning which needs to be raised when the current time nears a s
Ok, first things first...
If you want to show the user a form and do something in the background I would use the BackgroundWorker class, it worked for me before. Also, you need invoke methods as mentioned before and as Chris said, it sounds harder than what it actually is.
Here's a link which I think will help you out.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171728(VS.80).aspx