Question

I am trying to make an information label that should display the events the application doing.

deleting data, reading data, writing data, connection to db. etc..

I’ve added a label to my form and I am changing its text property for each operation like:

label1.Text = "stored procedure is being executed..";

But, in the run time the text of the label does not change. I’ve tried to add the method

Application.DoEvents();

to every place I’ve changed the label’s text property. It works fine. But it looks silly. So I’ve tried to add this method to my label’s “TextChanged” event. But it does not work!
Am I doing something wrong? Or,

is there any efficient way to make an information label?

Answer 1

You should use a BackgroundWorker; handle the ProgressChanged Event; and call ReportProgress in your DoWork handler. With this method, you can avoid the cross-threading exceptions.