>Run this lenghty process on a separate thread. While the thread is running, the UI will have some kinda animation and could listen to events raised from whithin the thread( operation failed,succeeded, progress etc).
>
>See
http://www.devx.com/DevX/10MinuteSolution/20365 . It might help you.
>
>Vlad
Thanks for assuring me that I have some idea what I am doing and for the link.
David
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