Provided feedback to user on progress of long task

[Matthew Smith]

I have a placed a task which takes a long time into a thread. I want to
provided status of that task on a form. I tried using
System.Windows.Forms.Timer to create a timer which every second updates
the form with new values but it doesn't seem to run at times when my
task is running. I loop through an array of several objects and run the
an overriden method for each. The method loops though reading a file and
processing each record. The timer runs when looping through each object
but doesn't while looping through the records in the files. Is there
something simple to fix this or am I going about it the wrong way?

 

[Daniel Moth]

I suggest you post some code that we can comment on (it sounds vague as it
stands - to me anyway). If I understand the scenario, you are using a
polling technique that I would change to make event driven somehow.

You might find that the code on these blog posts give you some ideas:
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2004/11/dont-poll.html
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2004/10/invoke-cf-and-full-fx.html

Cheers
Daniel

 

[Pete Vickers [MVP]]

Hi,
try an Application.Doevents() after each read or similar, to allow other
events to fire - that may do it

Pete