>Well, to get to the point, these invoices are obtained through a remote view, this takes on average, about 4 or 5 seconds to execute, meanwhile the user thinks that his PC has frozen and begins to get impatient.
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>Is there a way to display a progress bar (or at least an animated gif) while the remote view (or in some cases) stored procedure is running?
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>TIA

OK, I'm guessing the back-end database is something like SQL Server or Oracle. If that's the case, I'm not aware of any way to show a visual based on the progress of the query.

I'm guessing there's a way to show an animated GIF, though that itself doesn't prove that the back-end is still executing the query.

If it's taking 4-5 seconds, and if uses are growing impatient, is there an chance of refactoring the code (or data access approach), adding indexes, etc? I don't know specifics of your situation, so maybe you've already done that, but figured I'd bring it up.