Form.Show not completely painting

I am using a form to tell the user to 'Please Wait...', and am using the form's .Show to display the form.

Problem is, the form show's, but its child controls don't... , and because the program keeps running, it doesn't get painted properly... in particular, the message, 'Please Wait ...' is on a Label, and the label doesn't have time to get painted on screen..

How can I get around this?

VB Code:

j.Show()
tt = goGetData()  'this takes between 3-4 seconds
j.Dispose

Nm, i simply needed to include j.Update() before processing the data retrieval code...