Im am using VB.NET 2005 Express to do some coding for an on going project. The idea is we have been working with data from an older version of a clients DB. Recently we decided it would be a good idea to update our version with their latest copy. The program is working just fine in express but there is one small problem. I use MsgBox throughout to display different stats to the user. When the user clicks ok or whatever the program continues on the problem is that parts of the message box visually stick around and so the screen looks like a mess until the program finishes ruinning the SQL statements.  The problem with this is that this program is dealing with a very large DB and so the program appears to lock up but it hasn't it is just running my SQL statements.

What can I do to get rid of the msgbox before continuing?

Don't know if such a thing exists in vb.net , but in vb6 I would follow the msgbox with a doevents statement

MsgBox "Hello" DoEvents 'sql stuff

Steve

I think you can still call that through the Application class
ie Application.DoEvents

that seems to work. thanks but can i sound like a dumbass and ask why?

Cos the screen drawing events need to be run, and without a doevents the program execution will not be diverted.

Steve