forcing a form to completly appear before moving on

Hi there,

I have a nifty little program that sorts through some HTML, blah blah blah... We have all had to do this horrible job at one time or another. So now it is done. That is not the issue - this is...

I created this fancy little animated gif. I stuck it on an extra form that I call to show right before I process the HTML (which takes a couplle of seconds). Problem is that the form never fully appears :( it is just sorda half shows up the HTML processes and then it gets closed.

Is there some way to make sure that it appears and that the gif is showing and entertaining the user before the program moves on?

Thanks

Are you doing all of your work in the Form_Load method?

Look into using a backgroundworker to do all of your processing while leaving your interface thread responsive.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...undworker.aspx