Multithreading/Loading Screen

[escuro19]

Hi all,

I have an application, when the user clicks on a button it will open the 'view form', which loads data from a database into a listview.
This takes a while if there is alot of data in the database table.

How do i create a loading screen (asuming i need to make a new form as the loading screen) which appears while the application is loading the data into the listview. And once the process is finish, the loading screen will close and the 'view form' opens.

Many thanks

 

[escuro19]

Another way i thought to do this is on the viewform onload event.. open the loading form, excute the loading data to listview code then close the loading form..

 

[RiverGuy]

Use a BackgroundWorker to load the data.