How do I build a responsive application using C#

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I'm developing a desktop application for certain mathematical computation. I've finished building my application's gui & coding. However, when I run the application and click the button that does the operation, the application does not respond for over 15 minutes. I searched online and saw something on using backgroundworker thread that does the operation and update the progressbar control on the ui. This didn't work as well. The progressbar stops at 2%. The computation is heavy and does several looping. I need advice on what to do.

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I searched online and saw something on using backgroundworker thread that does the operation and update the progressbar control on the ui. This didn't work as well. The progressbar stops at 2%. The computation is heavy and does several looping. I need advice on what to do.

Posted 10-Jul-16 6:11am

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Updated 10-Jul-16 6:42am

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2016-07-10T06:23:00

BackgroundWorker is the right way to go: but you have to signal the Progress Bar updates at appropriate points in your task - you can't just start a worker and assume that it will automatically update the progress for you. So look at reporting progress a couple of times in your loops rather than just once at the start and again at the end.

PIEBALDconsult · Answer 2 · 2016-07-10T06:42:00

Here's a link to one of my earliest CP articles; it might provide some help:

ProgressDialog: for executing long-running code with some thread safety[^]

I realize that the article is not up to today's article standards and I would surely report is "extremely poor quality" were it submitted today, but I'm unsure that revamping it would be worthwhile. Please let me know your thoughts.

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