best practice to indicate long operation

[Andrus]

I need to indicate that some time-consumng operation is in progress in .NET
3.5 WinForms application.

I created class below and plan to use it like

using (WaitOper waitOper = new WaitOper())
TimeConsumingOperation();

Is this best way for this ?

Andrus.


using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;

class WaitOper : IDisposable {
Cursor saveCursor;

internal WaitOper() {
saveCursor = Cursor.Current;
Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor;
}

public void Dispose() {
Cursor.Current = saveCursor;
}
}

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I need to indicate that some time-consumng operation is in progress in .NET
3.5 WinForms application.

I created class below and plan to use it like

using (WaitOper waitOper = new WaitOper())
TimeConsumingOperation();

Is this best way for this ?

In general, time-consuming operations should be performed in a separate
thread entirely - that keeps the UI thread responsive.