hour glass or something like that during webprovisioned event receiver

Question

After a site is provisioned my code is continue to run. Is there a way to put hour glass or some animated image until i hit the last line of the code?

public override void WebProvisioned(SPWebEventProperties properties)

Answer 1

The default WebProvisioned event receiver is asynchronous and actually runs under the owstimer, not the IIS worker process. Regardless, even if you specify synchronous, there is no ability to interact with the user browser to control the cursor.

Answer 2

I believe that you can use the SPLongOperation class to achieve this.

You need to put the long running code between SPLogOperation.Begin() and SPLongOperaiton.End() method invocation.

var longOperation=new SPLongOperation(this.Page);
longOperation.LeadingHTML = "Please wait while the operation is running";
longOperation.TrailingHTML = "Once the operation is finished you will be redirected to result page";
longOperation.Begin();

//Do long operation here
Thread.Sleep(10000);

longOperation.End("Result.aspx");