Dealing with “Application has stopped responding” issue in C#.Net

Suppose in your application, on a click event you are doing some calculations which is taking a lot of time. During that time, if a user perform unnecessarily clicks on the screen, it might give a “Page is not responding” or "Application has stopped responding" error.

This can be resolved by following the below steps:

1.   Put your long running code in a thread.

2. Set “Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor;”

3. UseWaitCursor = true;

4. Inside the thread use the try-finally block.

5. In the finally block, set “this.Cursor = Cursors.Default;”

6. UseWaitCursor = false;

7. Start that thread.

Example:

     Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor;

     UseWaitCursor = true;

            new Thread(() =>

            {

     try

            {                             

                // Your long running code                                   

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                 // Handle any exception here

            }

            finally

            {                           

  Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default;

                UseWaitCursor = false;

            }

           }) { Name = "longTask" }.Start();

Now even if you click 100 times, the page will not show “Not Responding” error.

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