How do I applow my applicaton to connect to the net without it freezing while it does so.
If that doesn't make sense I will explain:
- I setup a WebRequest to retrieve an image.
- The application pauses for a few seconds
- The Image appears
How do application get their processes to work in the background so nothing temporarily feezes
background processes
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carlengerer
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconmakingasynchronousrequests.asp">Making Asynchronous Requests</a>
radheshyampatel
There are issues specific to Windows Forms you need to take into consideration, particularly how to handle callbacks to the UI thread. Chris Sells wrote a great series of articles on this; check out Part 1 at <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnforms/html/winforms06112002.asp">http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnforms/html/winforms06112002.asp</a>.