Running a windows form in a separate thread

Question

I am dealing with running a control in a form, however the form itself is of no value to me. I essentially want the form to run a task and return a value, however for that I

Answer 1

Why are you running tasks in a form?

This sounds like you have your UI and program logic tightly integrated. This is bad design.

In general, You can get data from a worker thread the standard way. Worker stores data in a thread safe data structure, then sends an event to the main thread signaling the data is available.