This article presents the instructional video for creating a similar GUI application that was covered in another article, The Progress Bar, in the section: Handling Steps Progress with a Background Job in a GUI Application.
This GUI application displays the list of all PDF documents from a selected folder, and also shows the progress of a task running in the background. Additionally, this application has the ability to stop the running job—if needed.
This application showcases a Responsive GUI. The Windows application will not freeze, and remains responsive to the user. In a normal Windows GUI application the form is non-responsive, making the user wait to get the control back and freezing the application at the task that is completed.
This video shows you how to:
Download the sample application use in the video: ListAllPDFMyDocApp1.zip