Question : timer on form in vb.net

I have an app that I want to display a timer that updates every second. The problem is that the display hangs while the app is doing database fetches.

Is there a way to make the timer update an independent thread so it is unaffected by the other processes?

Thanks,

Answer : timer on form in vb.net

"I guess I need something completely independent of what the frmMain is doing."

You can't.  ALL control updates run in the SAME main UI thread.  If frmMain is busy doing DB operations or "logic processing" then it ALSO CANNOT update the current time.

You either need to:
(1) Correctly move processing to another thread.
(2) Pepper your code with "Application.DoEvents()"