What I am trying to figure out is how to display a progress bar when im performing a large task. This task will consist of reading records from a database, writing them to a text file, manipulating the data to write to a database and then present them on the screen. There can be several thousand records that I have to manipulate. I am having trouble getting a progressbar to accuratly display the progress. My problem seems to be that since i cant determine exactly how many records and how much time it will take that I cant accuratly update the progressbar. Any help is appreciated. Thanks