kahwon t via DotNetMonster.com <forum@nospam.DotNetMonster.com> wrote:
> SORRY I ACCIDENTALLY POSTED THIS IN THE WinForm Controls SECTION:
>
> I can not figure out for the life of me why my app / form hangs afte I do a
> show:
>
> Me.Show()
> While Not Done
>
> System.Windows.Forms.Application.DoEvents()
>
> End While
>
> To test it, I threw a me.refresh in to see what was going on and when I ran
> my code, I could work on the form for about 5 - 10 seconds before it hung.
>
> Is there someone who might be able to help me?? this is an app that was
> converted from vb6 to vb.net using the conversion tool.

Jon Skeet [C# MVP] wrote:
>> SORRY I ACCIDENTALLY POSTED THIS IN THE WinForm Controls SECTION:
>>
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>> Is there someone who might be able to help me?? this is an app that was
>> converted from vb6 to vb.net using the conversion tool.
>
>Well, whatever's actually happening, using Application.DoEvents like
>that seems like a pretty bad idea to me. Why not just let the message
>pump do its work in the normal way?
>

kahwon t via DotNetMonster.com <forum@DotNetMonster.com> wrote:
> That may be. The DoEvents is a holdover from the conversion. I was able to
> get some relief by throwing in a thread.sleep(10) in the loop but when I go
> to do a form.close now it appears to hang just like when I did a form.show.
> It is becoming apparent to me that there is something I am missing here but
> no knowledge article or book that I've looked in has been able to tell me
> anything I need to fix this.......HELP!!!!!