Dacos,

Thanks for your post, I am already using BeginUpdate and SuspendRowSynchronization

Charlie

Well, it's hard to be more specific without source code and without explanation, why you actually need to merge datasets each 10 seconds.

You can try to merge only specific tables, not the whole dataset.

If the dataset is not changeable by user, you can try maintaining two copies of datasets, make merge on a separate thread and rebind the grid to the second dataset when the merge is done (thus switching datasets).

Are there a lot of DataColumn expressions? You can try to remove them, do merge and then reestablish them (the DataSet merge doesn't do it for you. Checked on .NET Framework 2.0).

Once more, it is hard to be specific not having any specific input data from you :)

Now THAT is clever, will have to have a look and investigate.

This is a "live" screenshot. If the control is not resized - the user doesn't actually see the difference (the grid is just "locked"). When resizing a gray background is visible. Acceptable for us (we didn't have much choice honestly saying :) )

Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(control.Width, control.Height);
control.DrawToBitmap(bitmap, Rectangle.FromLTRB(0, 0, bitmap.Width, bitmap.Height));
disabledGridPictureBox.Image = bitmap;
disabledGridPictureBox.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
disabledGridPictureBox.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.Normal;
disabledGridPictureBox.BringToFront();

dacos_sscherer001 said:

grid invisible replacing it with a screenshot

I presuming this is a predetermined screen shot, right, not a "live" screenshot?

Charlie

As you can see, I am the author of the thread you mentioned ;)

Our application ended in calling BeginUpdate(), SuspendRowSynchronization(), grid.Enabled = false; ___ and we also make the grid invisible replacing it with a screenshot__.

This whole "there is no good solution, try to shoot out of all guns you have" works for us (we could not reproduce any thread issues and AFAIK have not had any bug reports from our user which could result from synchronisation problems). At least the client is not freezed during the operation, and the user can access other parts of our application.

There is no guarantee that this hack will work for you. Of course it would be a good idea to try to solve the issue with "normal" means.