My first post, so apologies for any confusion I bestow.

I'm new to Visual Basic (2010), but not to coding. My problem is, I have a game I want to make with controls, but I know of no way to allow the form to change and run code while the player controls. I figure multi-threading would do it, or more experienced programmers know a better way. My current events/code:

Private Sub beginButtonClicked(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BeginButton.Click
'Many loops and game-running code
End Sub

Private Sub directionKeyPressed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles MyBase.KeyPress
'Very short control functionality code
End Sub