"Tim Johnson" <tjohnson@high-point.com> wrote in message
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>I know this has to be something really simple, but I have 2 questions:
>
> 1. How do you suppress painting of a form while doing some lengthy
> form_load stuff? I get bits and pieces of the form showing up before the
> final form appears.

>
> 2. How do you force a label text-change to appear immediately? I'm doing
> a web-service call on a timer tick, and I don't want to use the
> wait-cursors. So I update a status label with something like "Please
> wait...", then make the web-service call, then update it with "Uploaded 10
> records". Only the 2nd message appears. I've tried label.Invalidate()
> and this.Invalidate(), with and without a Thread.Sleep(0). What am I
> missing?
>

"Tim Johnson" <tjohnson@high-point.com> wrote in message
news:%23rjUqSKHFHA.1476@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>I know this has to be something really simple, but I have 2 questions:
>
> 1. How do you suppress painting of a form while doing some lengthy
> form_load stuff? I get bits and pieces of the form showing up before the
> final form appears.
>
> 2. How do you force a label text-change to appear immediately? I'm doing
> a web-service call on a timer tick, and I don't want to use the
> wait-cursors. So I update a status label with something like "Please
> wait...", then make the web-service call, then update it with "Uploaded 10
> records". Only the 2nd message appears. I've tried label.Invalidate()
> and this.Invalidate(), with and without a Thread.Sleep(0). What am I
> missing?
>
> --
>
> Tim Johnson
> High Point Software, Inc.
> www.high-point.com
> (503) 312-8625
>
>
>

Tim Johnson wrote:
> I know this has to be something really simple, but I have 2 questions:
>
> 1. How do you suppress painting of a form while doing some lengthy form_load
> stuff? I get bits and pieces of the form showing up before the final form
> appears.
>
> 2. How do you force a label text-change to appear immediately? I'm doing a
> web-service call on a timer tick, and I don't want to use the wait-cursors.
> So I update a status label with something like "Please wait...", then make
> the web-service call, then update it with "Uploaded 10 records". Only the
> 2nd message appears. I've tried label.Invalidate() and this.Invalidate(),
> with and without a Thread.Sleep(0). What am I missing?