Asynchronous processing - possibly with threads

Hi all,

I have a little problem with some Async processing.

I have an app that will recieve emails from an inbox, and populate a
database with some of the email details.

This app will also read this data from the database and populate a form(s)
with this info as need be.

The problem I have is that the reading of emails and population of the
database and form needs to work seperately from the application without
hindering the application at all.

i.e. the processing of the emails and data should not affect the front end
of the application.

My question, is there any tutorials anywhere on how to write Async classes
or events to handle this and how to call them and time them etc??? I have
started reading about this using MSDN but it is just too confusing. I need
something a little more straight forward please.

If anyone has a tutorial or maybe some code I could plagurise (this is not
commercial - it is for the canteen at work so emailed orders can be sent
rather than people queueing - bosses are getting mardy about time taken)

Cheers

Jim

In VB6 I ended up using a separate ActiveX EXE to perform a very similar function of reading email and auto-inserting into a db.

I read somewhere that you can simulated multiple threads if you build your code in a user control (ocx).

Attention it!

What do you mean Attention it?

Async - Multi-threaded ActiveX Control for Visual Basic:
http://www.evansprogramming.com/async.asp