Displaying wait cursor in while backgroundworker is running

Question

During the start of my windows application, I have to make a call to a web service to retrieve some default data to load onto my application. During the load of the form, I

Answer 1

In WPF, I've done this by setting the Mouse.OverrideCursor property to Cursors.Wait before I start the Backgroundworker, and then resetting it to null in the RunWorkerCompleted event. Seems to work pretty well so far.

public void go()
{
    BackgroundWorker thread = new BackgroundWorker();

    thread.DoWork += run;
    thread.RunWorkerCompleted += taskCompleted;
    thread.WorkerReportsProgress = true;

    // Change mouse cursor to busy
    Mouse.OverrideCursor = Cursors.Wait;

    thread.RunWorkerAsync();
}

private void taskCompleted(object sender, RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
{
    // Reset mouse cursor
    Mouse.OverrideCursor = null;
}