How to stop a procedure?

[Terry Olsen]

I've got my app doing what I want it to do, crawling a web site for data.
However, while it's in the "WebRequest/WebResponse" procedure, the app
doesn't respond. So it's like the app is locked up for approx 3 minutes
while it's doing its thing. Is there any way to make it responsive during
this time so that I can put a "Stop" button on the form and make it work?

 

[Lubos Hrasko]

Use a separate thread for your WebRequest/WebResponse procedure. Then if you
want to end this process... just kill the thread.

Cheers,
Lubos

 

[Terry Olsen]

Oh great! Now I gotta go learn how to do threads...

 

[John Smith]

you can try to periodically run this line
Application.DoEvents()

but you should be aware of the possibility to restart the same code ...