Help needed with Progressbar and file search.

[RonQA]

I would like to be able to add a progressbar to this code as it searches, but all my attempts results in the bar being updated at the end of the search instead of during.

For Each foundfile As String In My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles _
(PathDrawings, FileIO.SearchOption.SearchAllSubDirectories, TextBox1.Text & "*.pdf")

ListBox1.Items.Add(foundfile)

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

 

[Sorwen]

You either have to look into doing Thread/Delegates or add Application.DoEvents after incrementing your progress bar. The best method is Thread/Delegate the easiest method is Application.DoEvents.

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[RiverGuy]

A third alternative would be to employ a BackgroundWorker. It's basically threading but a little easier to code.

 

[Sorwen]

I always forget about a BW as I never totally understood it before. Likely I just need to revisit it now that I have more experience with threading.

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