General Question on Structure

[Steve Ricketts]

I'm converting a very large VB6 MDI application to C# that creates one
"informational display" child form and then a varying number of other child
forms all of the same type. The application will make socket connections to
a couple of different servers, do serial port communication, some radio
communication, play audio, and a number of other things. In the VB app,
most of this work was done in the "information display" form. I keep
running into cross threading issues when trying to reference items created
in other threads (I thought I knew what a thread was, but no longer sure!)

So, my question is, would it be better to do a much work as possible in the
main form (MDI) and let the child forms do only the things that are specific
to that form? Would this help the cross threading issues since all child
forms were created by the main form? Or is this just an issue that is going
to be there anyway?

I know this is a broad question but maybe someone has some tips or links to
good descriptions that might help.

Thanks,

Steve

[Steve Ricketts]

Sorry... don't know how this got here. Was trying to post to C# group.
sr

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