It's because the operation is running on the main thread, which makes 
the UI
unresponsive.  Try moving your process to a background thread.  It might 
be
overkill for your application, but I recommend trying:

Implementing a Background Process in Visual Basic .NET

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnadvnet/html/vbnet09272002.asp?f
ram
e=3Dtrue

Cheers,

padgett

-----Original Message-----
From: marc cardenas [mailto:marclena@h...]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 December 2002 4:23 PM
To: pro_VB_dotnet
Subject: [pro_vb_dotnet] VB app

Hi,
I'm doing a VB.Net App when I run the App it shows the window that the 
app
has then I click the button that it will start to do some operations on
the database, if I minimize the App and I want to maximize again it
doesn't allow me untill the operation has been terminated.
Why is that?
Does anyone know it?
Thanks
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