C#, Form, Control ... Showing a non-blocking message to user without any button

Danny Gilbert

Hi !

I try to show a MESSAGE to the user while an operation is executed. The MESSAGE won't show any button ... just a MESSAGE (text) and maybe a background image.

The problem is the following: MessageBox does not seem to be the good control (because of button and it blocks the running process), Form.ShowDialog() also blocks the running process .... I don't know what to do.

I want to show the message, run my process, and dispose the message when the process is done.

How to achieve this in C# ?

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Sam Hobbs16y ago
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Kirtan Patel16y ago
you need to use Multi Threading to Perform this task in Which one Thread (Main Thread) will do Processing and Other Will be Used to Show Message Window..
Sam Hobbs16y ago
You should use a thread for your processing. You can show a form using Form.Show, then start the thread, then when the thread finishes, just close the form. Dispose the form object to close it, or set the object to null. Or the thread itself can show a form when it starts and close the form when it is done. If you want to get more advanced, you can put a progress bar in the form. Something else you can do if you want to is to allow the user to cancel the processing if they want to.
Amit Choudhary16y ago
hi friend,
Why dont you try Progress bar with locking the current winodw????

Hope it helps...