Building a responsive UI with WinForms
In this section, we will be building a very simple WinForms application that is Dots Per Inch (DPI)-aware and enables the user to continue working during long-running operations. The application has a splash screen with a progress bar and an updated label that provides visual feedback to the user that the application is busy loading. Once the loading progress has been completed, the splash screen closes, and the main window is displayed.
On the main window, there is a label that gets updated every time you click on the increment count button, a paged table that you can navigate through using the buttons provided, and a progress indicator for a long-running task that also has a cancel button.
While the long-running task is executing, you can move the window around, increment the label by clicking the increment count button, and you can page through the data. If you choose to, you can also cancel the long-running task.
When the long-running...
