Repainting WinForms windows safely inside a processing loop (safe DoEvents)

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This example illustrates the correct use of Application.DoEvents() in order to allow a window to repaint (or handle the desired messages) while its thread is busy doing heavy processing.

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Programming since the times of good old Spectrum.
Windows developer (from C++/COM to C# now).

Repainting WinForms windows safely inside a processing loop (safe DoEvents)

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