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[Blimp]

Hi everyone, I'm back for a while!

I've been working on a little piece of software I'm proto-typing in VB.net and found a little problem. I've spoke to a few people about it and they have all said they have encountered it before but can't remember how they fixed it.

Background info
The application connects to a server and requests data from a server. Pretty straight forward really. Because the application connects and downloads data, it is necessary for the application to use multi-threading.

The problem
When trying to interact with the form (My connection screen) the thread that is downloading and messing about with connections will not seem to work.

What should happen
Upon connection, the form should display text in it's status text as "Connected" and when failing, "Error connecting"

My thoughts
After working with a lot of networking applications, I thought it may be something to do with illegal cross-thread calls but this was obviously not right.Could one of you Guru's help me out/Point me in the right direction here? It's the first time I've got stuck in a long time!

~ Blimp