Is Timer the best option?

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Hi there,

I've two forms namely FormA & FormB whose constructors initialize some ActiveX controls (to display some default charts) & does some init tasks which are time consuming as shown in the below code snippet:

     Dim theFormA As FormA = New FormA
     Dim theFormB As FormB = New FormB
 

To optimize the program, I'm calling the above lines of code in two separate threads which are working absolutely fine. All I'm doing is I'm setting a flag value to True just before the execution reaches the last line of the constructor of both forms. I've a timer running all the time which checks for this flag value whether it's True or False. If the flag values are True it indicates that my threads have completed their execution. But the point to be noted here is that I'm completely relying on the Timer to determine whether or not my threads have completed their execution.

My question is - Is there a better way of determining whether or not my threads have completed their execution via any event which gets triggered just after the threads have finished their respective jobs so that I can go ahead & do other processing which currently I'm doing in the tick event of the Timer control after having determined that the threads have completed their jobs.

Thanks in advance.
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