Display Please waite message

Question

i want to display please wait message while running in c#.Iam tried to display the message, but it not display.

I put the code
label.text="Please wait....";
it display after the program running. Iwant to disply this message between the running
Code sample below
label.text="Please wait....";
string bakup = "BACKUP DATABASE " + myCurDbName + " TO DISK='C:\\temp\\" + myCurDbName + ".bak" + "'";
myDbTask.ExecuteNonQuery(bakup);

Application is Windows based, not web

Sam Hobbs · Answer

In your main form's Load event show another form that says to wait. Then put a BackgoundWorker in the main form and do the processing (backup?) in the thread. When the processing is done the task completion code can close the other thread. You can do all that in the main form without a thread but that won't look professional. If you show the other form using ShowDialog instead of Show then the main form cannot be used until the other form is closed and I assume that you do want to do that.

Suthish Nair · Answer

web or windows application?

Wil Youmans · Answer

Sounds like you want a splash screen? Here is a good article http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/prettygoodsplashscreen.aspx

Frogleg · Answer

Application.DoEvents(); label.Text = Please wait...;