Show a loading screen in vb.net

Question

I need to show a screen or something, saying \'Loading\' or whatever while long process are working.

I am creating a application with the Windows Media Encoder SDK and i

Answer 1

Two things you can try.

After setting your label (as mentioned in the comment to Mitchel) call Application.DoEvents()

Another option you have is to run the initialization code for the encoder in a BackgroundWorker process.