label status messages

Question

hey im new to c# a few days i been using it now. previously i had been using VB. i followed some tutorials (im using visual studio btw) and everything was going smoothly until... i wrote a program to download pages from the internet (using System.Net.Sockets) . it downloads it all fine etc but i wanted some status messages (eg lblstatus.Text=Starting Download; but if i put code like that before the page download etc it seems to only execute the command after the thing is downloaded (which is rather useless). can you kinda help me figure out whats going on here? (post a message point me to a window forms tutorial or a c# tutorial or somthing i can google its driving me mad lol).

ssett_cn · Answer

as Robin Panther says multi thread does works actually put your functions in a thread is enough that is one thread. else you'd better using StatusBar instead of Lable StatusBar could always show your status messages. may be a thread is in it just guess.

shamsuddin_02 · Answer

thank you for a reply i'll prob take a look at multi threading.

robin 0 · Answer

There are two ways for you: 1. Make a multi threaded application. One thread for downloading second (main) for interface updating and controlling download. Take a look at System.Threading namespace 2. Make your own download function and insert inside it interface updating functions including label texts progress bars etc.