Hi,

I've never come across anything comparable to a wait window in .NET. I'm guessing if you dive into the Windows API you could find one, or maybe create your own custom modeless form and work with that.

What I do is this...on my main form, I reserve the very bottom of a form for a 'status' label. It has a black background and a white foreground, so the color sticks out from everything else.

By default, the label is invisible, but anytime I want to show the equivalent of a 'wait window' (running a query, saving a file, etc.), I have a function that sets it visibile and displays a message...and then sets it back to invisible when the process is done.

So while it's not a 'popup' that a wait window provides, but it sticks out enough to alert that user that it serves the same purpose.

Kevin