Form freezes during while loop

Question

I have a piece of code that checks if a certain application is running

while (Process.GetProcessesByName(\"notepad\").Length == 0)
{
     System.Threading.Thread         


        

Answer 1

You could always just start an asynchronous task to keep updating the UI

Task f = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
        {
            while (true)
            {
                //This would make the form become responsive every 500 ms
                Thread.Sleep(500); //Makes the async thread sleep for 500 ms
                Application.DoEvents(); //Updates the Form's UI
            }
        });

Or this to run it on a different thread

Task f = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
{
while (Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad").Length == 0)
    {
        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000); //Does the while loop every 1000 ms
    }
});