Disable button while page loads

[hobbit666]

How do you disable a button while a process loads?

I have a VB.NET application that has a WebBrowser in it. When the user clicks the button it loads a web page that updates a database from a CSV file. Now this process can take upto 3 minutes and at the moment (as i'm a newbie) there is no way of telling the user something is happening.

So i thought why not just disable the button they clicked until the page has loaded and done the update. Once this is done the button can be re-enabled ready for the next file to process.

Or is there a way of getting an animation to run in the corner of the application or grey out the whole thing and display a rotating icon showing it;s running?

 

[ajeeshco]

How do you disable a button while a process loads?

You may set the Enabled property of the Button to False

Or is there a way of getting an animation to run in the corner of the application or grey out the whole thing and display a rotating icon showing it;s running?

You may use a BackgroundWorker control for this.

 

[hobbit666]

You may set the Enabled property of the Button to False

I've tried that but how do i get it to re-enable after the process has finished? or the web page has loaded?