Hi Matthew

The UI doesn't refresh automatically until the end of the method. You can add a call to Refresh to have the label text update right away:

this.lblProcessing.Refresh(); 

>I am trying to do something that seems simple, but I can not get it to work? I have a winform that kicks off a data conversion routine. When I click on the Process button, I want to display several messages during the procssing so the user knows what is happening. The code looks something like this:
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>this.lblProcessing.Text = "Starting data conversion ...";
>this.convertData();
>this.lblProcessing.Text = "Data conversion complete.";
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>The problem is, I never see the first message while the conversion is being run? If I comment out the second 2 lines, the first message displays fine. Do I need to call a form refresh or something to have the labels text display the updated text?
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>Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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>Kind Regards,
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>Mat