BackGroundWorker for .NET 1.1?

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I just read my MSDN magazine from last month and was very pleased to see an article about performance and the small(er) things you can do to improve it.

I have a pretty big database driven winforms application that I've been working on and am very disappointed in the time it takes to show some of these windows. I am doing a lot of data binding and database access in the form's loading event. I do SuspendLayout/ResumeLayout around the code in my _load event but that really only makes it *appear* to "pop" faster.

I read about .NET 2.0's BackgroundWorker support and was intrigued. I can't afford the move to 2.0 yet as virtually no one has it installed, so I'm looking for a solution that will work with .NET 1.1. Is starting a new thread in the load event "proper"? In order to data bind I need to run at least a SELECT query, so is there some harm in binding in a thread other than the main one?

Obviously it does me no good to show a window that the user can't interact with, but even shaving half a second off the load time would be a substantial improvement. Even fractions of a second *appear* to be a long time when just opening a window.

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- Mitchell Vincent
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