Show a Progress Dialog Bar While Loading Data (WinForms and WPF)

When you’re designing your application, you need to consider how to handle data loading in order to ensure the application always remains responsive to the user. Generally this is done by loading data asynchronously on a background thread, while the user may continue to interact with the application.

The issue is that without proper visualization, the user may wonder whether anything is happening. This leads to the use of a progress bar to indicate that some activity is being executed in the background.

Once the data has been loaded the progress bar should be hidden and the relevant controls to display the data should be shown.

Let’s walk through with a few examples working with progress bars in WinForms and WPF.

Indeterminate Progress Bars

The first step is to asynchronously load your data so that the application UI remains responsive during longer-than-usual load times. This is handled pretty easily in .NET using an awaited method call. It means that any code that happens after the await, will not run until the operation is complete. It’s the easiest solution as shown below.

private async Task LoadData()
{
        // show progress bar
        progressBar1.Visible = true;
        await LoadDataAsync();
        // hide progress bar
        progressBar1.Visible = false;
}

All you have to do is set the progress bar visibility before you await the loading of data, and then set it invisible when the operation is complete. This works well if the progress bar is “indeterminate”, which means it will keep looping through the loading animation indefinitely until you stop it.

It’s a common design paradigm today to display an indeterminate progress bar, or ring, as data is loading. This is popular because with unpredictable networks we don’t know exactly how long it may take. The server we are calling may not be capable or willing to inform us how long it will take either.

To create an indeterminate progress bar in WinForms, set its Style property to Marquee. In WPF, set its IsIndeterminate property to True.

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Your Data Architecture: Simple Best Practices for Your Data Strategy

If you accumulate data on which you base your decision-making as an organization, you should probably think about your data architecture and possible best practices.

If you accumulate data on which you base your decision-making as an organization, you most probably need to think about your data architecture and consider possible best practices. Gaining a competitive edge, remaining customer-centric to the greatest extent possible, and streamlining processes to get on-the-button outcomes can all be traced back to an organization’s capacity to build a future-ready data architecture.

In what follows, we offer a short overview of the overarching capabilities of data architecture. These include user-centricity, elasticity, robustness, and the capacity to ensure the seamless flow of data at all times. Added to these are automation enablement, plus security and data governance considerations. These points from our checklist for what we perceive to be an anticipatory analytics ecosystem.

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Getting Started With Data Lakes

Frameworks for Efficient Enterprise Analytics

The opportunities big data offers also come with very real challenges that many organizations are facing today. Often, it’s finding the most cost-effective, scalable way to store and process boundless volumes of data in multiple formats that come from a growing number of sources. Then organizations need the analytical capabilities and flexibility to turn this data into insights that can meet their specific business objectives.

This Refcard dives into how a data lake helps tackle these challenges at both ends — from its enhanced architecture that’s designed for efficient data ingestion, storage, and management to its advanced analytics functionality and performance flexibility. You’ll also explore key benefits and common use cases.

Introduction

As technology continues to evolve with new data sources, such as IoT sensors and social media churning out large volumes of data, there has never been a better time to discuss the possibilities and challenges of managing such data for varying analytical insights. In this Refcard, we dig deep into how data lakes solve the problem of storing and processing enormous amounts of data. While doing so, we also explore the benefits of data lakes, their use cases, and how they differ from data warehouses (DWHs).

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This is a preview of the Getting Started With Data Lakes Refcard. To read the entire Refcard, please download the PDF from the link above.

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Show a Progress Dialog Bar While Loading Data (WinForms and WPF)

When you’re designing your application, you need to consider how to handle data loading in order to ensure the application always remains responsive to the user. Generally this is done by loading data asynchronously on a background thread, while the user may continue to interact with the application.

The issue is that without proper visualization, the user may wonder whether anything is happening. This leads to the use of a progress bar to indicate that some activity is being executed in the background.

Once the data has been loaded the progress bar should be hidden and the relevant controls to display the data should be shown.

Let’s walk through with a few examples working with progress bars in WinForms and WPF.

Indeterminate Progress Bars

The first step is to asynchronously load your data so that the application UI remains responsive during longer-than-usual load times. This is handled pretty easily in .NET using an awaited method call. It means that any code that happens after the await, will not run until the operation is complete. It’s the easiest solution as shown below.

private async Task LoadData()
{
        // show progress bar
        progressBar1.Visible = true;
        await LoadDataAsync();
        // hide progress bar
        progressBar1.Visible = false;
}

All you have to do is set the progress bar visibility before you await the loading of data, and then set it invisible when the operation is complete. This works well if the progress bar is “indeterminate”, which means it will keep looping through the loading animation indefinitely until you stop it.

It’s a common design paradigm today to display an indeterminate progress bar, or ring, as data is loading. This is popular because with unpredictable networks we don’t know exactly how long it may take. The server we are calling may not be capable or willing to inform us how long it will take either.

To create an indeterminate progress bar in WinForms, set its Style property to Marquee. In WPF, set its IsIndeterminate property to True.

#.net #wpf #winforms

Circular Progress Bar Using Html CSS and Bootstrap

How to create an animated circular progress bar using only HTML CSS and BoostApp programming code. I have designed many more types of animated progress bars before but this design has been designed in a completely modern way.

Animated circular Progress Bar is a type of statistical design used in a variety of websites. It is mainly used to indicate the percentage of one’s qualification in a portfolio website or personal website. It is fully animated, that is, under normal conditions, it has zero percent then it will gradually reach the pre-determined percentage. Different colors have been used to denote percentages.

Demo

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PThu9_EP40

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How Has COVID-19 Impacted Data Science?

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted supply chains and brought economies around the world to a standstill. In turn, businesses need access to accurate, timely data more than ever before. As a result, the demand for data analytics is skyrocketing as businesses try to navigate an uncertain future. However, the sudden surge in demand comes with its own set of challenges.

Here is how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the data industry and how enterprises can prepare for the data challenges to come in 2021 and beyond.

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