thank you for reading. i have a windows application, a tool built to take large text files (containing data) to import into a sql server table.
the text files contain more than 300,000 lines of data at a time. vb.net code in the windows application reads each line, parses, then inserts into the database table. on the form i have set a label to show the progress of the data migration, and a progress bar reflecting percentage finished. problem is, during the loop, if the form is moved or focus taken away from the form, the form itself freezes. the progress bar no longer moves forward, and label also stops showing any updates. but the background process, of reading the text line, then inserting into sql, still runs and eventually the entire process will finish. so my problem is a cosmetic one, i would like to form to continue updating the information while the long running loop is completed. any help would be greatly appreciated. - Joe
