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

There are a lot of answers here already but I found another solution that worked for me so I'd figured I list it.

private void ShowWaitCursor(){
    Application.UseWaitCursor = true; //keeps waitcursor even when the thread ends.
    System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor; //Normal mode of setting waitcursor
}

private void ShowNormalCursor(){
    Application.UseWaitCursor = false;
    System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default;
}

I use both in line like this and it seams to work the way I expect all the time. Especially when I want to have a wait cursor showing while a worker is running. Hope this helps anyone else still looking.