[code] ASP.NET Busy Box 1.2 (Processing... Please Wait)

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Summary: We often need to provide a user message informing the user that their request is “processing”. Like the hour-glass mouse pointer lets the Windows user know the system is busy processing their last request, I have a simple, clean, and effect solution to providing this on web pages.

BusyBox Demo
http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/samples/BusyBoxDemo/Default.aspx

[via Building a Better Busy Box (Processing… Please Wait) - Ver 1.2]

Check out the demo - very nice eye-candy to entertain your user while running long running operations like file uploads, webservice calls, etc. [update: failed humor attempt removed]

6 Comments

lol. You apparently missed the point.

Mark Wagner - Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:12:00 AM

Mark -

Sorry if my attempt at humor came off wrong. Long running processes like uploads, webservice calls, etc., are often unavoidable. This is much better than what I've done in the past. I'll update the text.

- Jon

Jon Galloway - Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:08:00 AM

No problem Jon. Your last comment has completely redeemed yourself in my eyes. I appreciate your kind response. Thanks.

Mark Wagner - Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:12:00 PM

After Ajax we all expect to see things like that to stop making requests.

Albert Pascual - Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:40:17 PM

Ran into one problem - making an ajax request pops the box. Kind of a showstopper for me.

Nick H - Sunday, March 25, 2007 9:07:01 PM

How to activate this from vb.net code behind ???

arvind - Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:19:07 PM

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