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Asynchronous Processing of Functions and Webservice Calls

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How to do process functions and webservice calls asynchronously
This article shows how to implement the Whidbey (.NET 2.0) BackgroundWorker component in VB.NET 1.1, and extend it to support multiple arguments.
Imports System
Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

' General Information about an assembly is controlled through the following 
' set of attributes. Change these attribute values to modify the information
' associated with an assembly.

' Review the values of the assembly attributes

<Assembly: AssemblyTitle("")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyDescription("")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyCompany("")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyProduct("")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyCopyright("")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")> 
<Assembly: CLSCompliant(True)> 

'The following GUID is for the ID of the typelib if this project is exposed to COM
<Assembly: Guid("0DC9DA31-4ABC-493A-A60C-24D2D2D601F9")> 

' Version information for an assembly consists of the following four values:
'
'      Major Version
'      Minor Version 
'      Build Number
'      Revision
'
' You can specify all the values or you can default the Build and Revision Numbers 
' by using the '*' as shown below:

<Assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")> 

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