How do I show a “Loading . . . please wait” message in Winforms for a long loading form?

Question

I have a form that is very slow because there are many controls placed on the form.

As a result the form takes a long time to loaded.

How do I load the fo

Answer 1

or if you don't want anything fancy like animation etc. you can create a label and dock it to form then change it's z-index from document outline window to 0 and give it a background color so other controls wont be visible than run Application.DoEvents() once in form load event and do all your coding in form shown event and at the and of shown event set your label visible property to false then run Application.DoEvents() again.