Threading for filling out gridview?

[Guest]

I'm filling up a gridview and the underlying datatable has about 30,000
records, so it takes some time before I can see the page again with the
records on the gridview.
Is there any type of threading (or anything else) that I can use so that I
can display some message (i.e. "Grid loading...") or any way so that I can
start viewing the records?

Thanks.

 

[Marc Gravell]

Do you mean DataGridView? GridView is web, and 30k rows would just be
the wrong answer for a web app. If DataGridView, then perhaps consider
virtual mode? As long as you can guess the size to start with, this
would allow the user to view the available data while a background
thread lazy-loads it into a (synchronised) collection.
http://tinyurl.com/jrhhf
or (same link, but watch for wrap):
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridview.virtualmode.aspx

Marc

 

[Alvin Bruney [MVP]]

stop multi-posting please.

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