Best way to make users waiting for .NET loading...?

Posted by Eric Girardet on 28-Jul-2010 11:02

Hi,

my app is being big with a lot of classes... many .NET UI classes, etc... Due to this fact users have to wait the app to load and because nothing is displayed on the screen just after the "Progress banner", users try to restart the app because as their point of view the app is not started yet and it causes some problems of performance  

I noticed that the .NET UI loading is my biggest problem. So is their anybody who has an idea on how to make people waiting until the app is completly loaded in memory?

All suggestions are welcome

Thanks !

Eric.

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Posted by Admin on 28-Jul-2010 11:25

A custom splash screen based on the progress GUI, with some changing status text, should help. Maybe with a sort of progress bar.

How much time are we talking about?

Posted by Eric Girardet on 28-Jul-2010 11:32

It takes 10 sec to 30 sec depending on the CPU / memory of the PC.

You speak about Progress GUI that's sounds goods because Progress GUI should load fast but how we could do it well with the .NET WAIT-FOR ?

Posted by Admin on 28-Jul-2010 11:55

While the client is busy loading .NET, there is no need for a WAIT-FOR, just a PROCESS EVENTS here an there.

But a client machine that takes 30 seconds to lot the .NET framework should be replaced...

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