Who Needs BackgroundWorker....

[Evan St John]

StartLongRunningProcess() While (Some Condition That Last 3 Minutes) Application.DoEvents() End While StartAnotherLongRunningProcess() While (Some Condition That Last 3 Minutes) Application.DoEvents() End While ...found this today, almost died.

[StM0n]

At least, you found it...

(yes|no|maybe)*

[AspDotNetDev]

And they didn't even have the decency to use Thread.Sleep in the loop?

StartLongRunningProcess()
While (Some Condition That Last 3 Minutes)
Application.DoEvents()
End While

StartAnotherLongRunningProcess()
While (Some Condition That Last 3 Minutes)
Application.DoEvents()
End While

Even pseudo code benefits from indents and PRE tags. :)

[WikiLeaks Cablegate Cables]

[David1987]

I have yet to see a problem where Application.DoEvents is the right solution..

[Sander Rossel]

Lazy@$$Co-Worker.DoEvents! :laugh:

It's an OO world.

[musefan]

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

I may or may not be responsible for my own actions

[musefan]

JNochowitz wrote:

...found this today, almost died.

read this today, and almost wet myself!

I may or may not be responsible for my own actions

[Vladimir Svyatski]

By the way, how does the author know that long running process takes exactly 3 minutes? :laugh: And where is parallelism? It can spare you 3 minutes!

[BillW33]

Sadly I have seen a lot of legacy code where loops and Application.DoEvents()is the standard way to handle long processing times. X|

Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.

[Quirkafleeg]

I found found only one place - when using the unmanged function "SHAppBarMessage", with ABM_SETPOS.