Running a windows form in a separate thread

Question

I am dealing with running a control in a form, however the form itself is of no value to me. I essentially want the form to run a task and return a value, however for that I

Answer 1

I did this once for my project

var frmNewForm = new Form1();
var newThread = new System.Threading.Thread(frmNewFormThread);

newThread.SetApartmentState(System.Threading.ApartmentState.STA);
newThread.Start();

And add the following Method. Your newThread.Start will call this method.

public void frmNewFormThread()
{
    Application.Run(frmNewForm);
}