vb net backgroundworker + progress bar - vb.net

i want to create automatic progress bar that will popped up when i ran my program..
my program has 6 function/sub which run query that took quite long time to completed, it's approximately around 1-2 minutes regarding input
i'm using backgroundworker to handle the threads and combine it with progressbar
here's my code
RunWorkerAsync
Private Sub ButtonX1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ButtonX1.Click
BackgroundWorker1.WorkerReportsProgress = True
BackgroundWorker1.RunWorkerAsync()
End Sub
Do_work
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_DoWork(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.DoWork
For i As Integer = 0 To 100000000
create_tree()
localtree()
localfrek()
create_combination()
showresult()
If i Mod 10000000 Then
BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(i / 100)
End If
Next
End Sub
ProgressChanged
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_ProgressChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.ProgressChangedEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.ProgressChanged
ProgressBar1.Visible = True
ProgressBar1.Value = e.ProgressPercentage
End Sub
RunWorkerCompleted
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_RunWorkerCompleted(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.RunWorkerCompleted
MessageBox.Show("Task completed!")
End Sub
the problem is
the the progress bar didn't popped up
the function stop before completion
for the second problem i think it because the for loop that i use in Do_work event
i don't know the elapsed time of each function that i have, so i use random integer number in for loop
can you please help me to correct my program? thank you very much.. :)

Firstly, you should be setting the Visible property of the ProgressBar before you call RunWorkerAsync.
Secondly, you should be comparing i Mod 10000000 to something.
Thirdly, if i goes up to 10000000 then i / 100 is going to go beyond 100.

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BackgroundWorker. Stop thread execution

Good afternoon!
Can you tell me how to stop the execution of a thread? The following code doesn't work:
Private Sub Stop_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Stop.Click
If BackgroundWorker1.IsBusy Then
If BackgroundWorker1.WorkerSupportsCancellation Then
BackgroundWorker1.CancelAsync()
End If
End If
End Sub
That code does exactly what it is supposed to do, i.e. REQUEST a cancellation. It can't just stop working though, because it has no idea what work is being done. YOU are the one writing the code to do the work so YOU are the one who has to write the code to check whether a cancellation has been requested and to actually perform that cancellation. We have no idea what work you're doing so we have no idea where it is convenient to check whether a cancellation has been requested and what, if any, clean-up may be required in that case. Here's a basic example of what a cancellation might look like though:
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'Raise the DoWork event in a worker thread.
Me.BackgroundWorker1.RunWorkerAsync()
End Sub
'This method is executed in a worker thread.
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_DoWork(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.DoWork
Dim worker As System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker = DirectCast(sender, System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker)
For i As Integer = 1 To 100
If worker.CancellationPending Then
'The user has cancelled the background operation.
e.Cancel = True
Exit For
End If
'Raise the ProgressChanged event in the UI thread.
worker.ReportProgress(i, i & " iterations complete")
'Perform some time-consuming operation here.
Threading.Thread.Sleep(250)
Next i
End Sub
'This method is executed in the UI thread.
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_ProgressChanged(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.ProgressChangedEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.ProgressChanged
Me.ProgressBar1.Value = e.ProgressPercentage
Me.Label1.Text = TryCast(e.UserState, String)
End Sub
'This method is executed in the UI thread.
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_RunWorkerCompleted(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.RunWorkerCompleted
If e.Cancelled Then
'The background operation was cancelled.
Me.Label1.Text = "Operation cancelled"
Else
'The background operation completed normally.
Me.Label1.Text = "Operation complete"
End If
End Sub
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
'Only cancel the background opertion if there is a background operation in progress.
If Me.BackgroundWorker1.IsBusy Then
Me.BackgroundWorker1.CancelAsync()
End If
End Sub

How can I Cancel Multiple Background Workers in a For loop?

Creating a Windows app in Visual Studio 15.
Have a form where I can start up to 10 background worker tasks (BG1 to BG10). I currently cancel each BGWorker individually with:
Private Sub DSx10C_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles DSx10C.Click
BackgroundWorker10.CancelAsync()
BackgroundWorker10.Dispose()
Label10.Text = "Cancelled"
End Sub
I need to do a Cancel ALL option.
How can I loop through all 10 BGWorkers in a For loop?
Hope my question is a better MCVE.
How to cancel all the BackgroundWorkers,
You can do it like this:
Declare an array of BackgroundWorkers
Dim MyBackgroundWorkers() As BackgroundWorker
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'' add all your BackgroundWorkers to the array
MyBackgroundWorkers = New BackgroundWorker() {BackgroundWorker1, BackgroundWorker2, BackgroundWorker3, BackgroundWorker4, BackgroundWorker5}
End Sub
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
'' now you can Cancel all of them in a loop
For Each bgw In MyBackgroundWorkers
If bgw.IsBusy Then
bgw.CancelAsync()
End If
Next
End Sub
This is assuming that your BackgroundWorkers are controls you added from the toolbox at design time. If it was declared and added from code, you would need to make appropriate modifications in the Form_Load code.
Try This. Hope This helps.

How does the ProgressBar.PerformStep() function work?

I'm quite confused about progress bar in VB.net, here is my code
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
ProgressBar_my.Minimum = 0
ProgressBar_my.Maximum = 10
ProgressBar_my.Step = 1
End Sub
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
ProgressBar_my.PerformStep()
Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)
If 1 = 1 Then
ProgressBar_my.PerformStep()
ProgressBar_my.PerformStep()
End If
'Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000)
End Sub
For the above code, what I expected is that after I click Button1, the progress bar will increase the progress status by 1, then it will pause for 5 sec, then it will increase the progress status by 2 at once.
However, after I ran the above code, what I saw was that after I click Button1, the progress bar will increase by 3 continually after 5 sec.
Can someone tell me why it behaves like this and How should I program my code so that I can increase by 1, then pause 5 sec and then increase by 2?
Thanks in advance!
I think what you are seeing (or not seeing) is the fact that the progress bar takes a finite amount of time to advance each step.
When you call Threading.Thread.Sleep on the UI thread this stops the progress bar from being redrawn until after the Sleep
What you should do is update the progress bar on a background worker instead, then I think you will see the effect you desire.
Add a BackgroundWorker to your form
Change your button click code to start the worker:
Private Sub frmSO_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
ProgressBar_my.Minimum = 0
ProgressBar_my.Maximum = 10
ProgressBar_my.Step = 1
End Sub
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
BackgroundWorker1.RunWorkerAsync
End Sub
Then perform the update in the DoWork event:
'define a delegate to handle updates to the UI thread
Private Delegate Sub PerformStepCallback()
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_DoWork(sender As Object, e As System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.DoWork
Dim cb As PerformStepCallback = AddressOf ProgressBar_my.PerformStep
Me.BeginInvoke(cb)
Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)
Me.BeginInvoke(cb)
Me.BeginInvoke(cb)
End Sub
The problem is that you call Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000), which will, well, pause the current thread. But that also means that the window won't be redrawn, so you see the effect of the first call to PerformStep only after the thread is no longer paused.
You can use another thread for wait and the second update; the easiest way in this case is using the Task Parallel Library:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
ProgressBar1.PerformStep()
Task.Delay(5000).ContinueWith(Sub()
ProgressBar1.PerformStep()
ProgressBar1.PerformStep()
End Sub, TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext)
End Sub
Thanks Matt Wilko for giving me the clue. Here is my code.
From the Components tab of the Toolbox, add a BackgroundWorker component named backgroundWorker2. Create DoWork and ProgressChanged event handlers for the BackgroundWorker.
The following code will initiate the Component.
Public Sub New()
InitializeComponent()
BackgroundWorker2.WorkerReportsProgress = True
BackgroundWorker2.WorkerSupportsCancellation = True
End Sub
Call RunWorkerAsync when the button is clicked and the background worker is not running.
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
If BackgroundWorker2.IsBusy <> True And ProgressBar_my.Value < 6 Then
BackgroundWorker2.RunWorkerAsync()
End If
End Sub
Private Sub BackgroundWorker2_DoWork_1(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventArgs) _
Handles BackgroundWorker2.DoWork
Dim worker As BackgroundWorker = CType(sender, BackgroundWorker)
worker.ReportProgress(1)
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000)
worker.ReportProgress(1)
worker.ReportProgress(1)
End Sub
The following event is raised when every time the ReportProgress method is called.
Private Sub backgroundWorker2_ProgressChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.ProgressChangedEventArgs) _
Handles BackgroundWorker2.ProgressChanged
ProgressBar_my.PerformStep()
End Sub
More information about the BackgroundWorker:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.backgroundworker(v=vs.110).aspx

VB.Net - Updating progress bar from background worker

I am trying to build a log parser in VB.Net that will take IIS logs and insert them into a database. Having never really made a full out desktop application, I'm hitting a number of stumbling blocks, so please forgive me if my questions a very uninformed; I'm learning to walk while running.
The code that I'm working with looks like this:
Protected Overrides Sub OnLoad(ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
MyBase.OnLoad(e)
BackgroundWorker1.RunWorkerAsync()
End Sub
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_DoWork(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As DoWorkEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.DoWork
Dim logfile = "C:\ex111124.log"
Dim FileLength As Long = New System.IO.FileInfo(logfile).Length
logFileLabel.Text = logfile
Dim objReader As New System.IO.StreamReader(logfile)
Do While objReader.Peek() <> -1
OngoingLog.AppendText(objReader.ReadLine)
'BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(e.percentProgress)
Loop()
objReader.Close()
objReader = Nothing
End Sub
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_ProgressChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ProgressChangedEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.ProgressChanged
'Me.crunchingProgress.Value = e.ProgressPercentage
End Sub
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_RunWorkerCompleted(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.RunWorkerCompleted
Close()
End Sub
So the function works, when this window is opened it starts to read the log file and updates a textbox with all of the rows currently read, but I also want it to update a progress bar in my main thread called crunchingProgress.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This should do the trick:
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_ProgressChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ProgressChangedEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.ProgressChanged
Invoke(Sub()
Me.crunchingProgress.Value = e.ProgressPercentage
End Sub)
End Sub
You don't set the BackgroundWorker to report progress (WorkerReportsProgress)
BackgroundWorker1.WorkerReportsProgress = True
BackgroundWorker1.RunWorkerAsync()
Now your BackgroundWorker1_ProgressChanged will be called in the context of the UI Thread and you can set the progressbar value
Of course, when you call ReportProgress to raise the ProgressChanged event, you need to pass the percentage of work done so far.
Using objReader As New System.IO.StreamReader(logfile)
Do While objReader.Peek() <> -1
Dim line = objReader.ReadLine()
OngoingLog.AppendText(line)
Dim pct = Convert.ToInt32((100 * line.Length) / FileLength )
BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(pct)
Loop
End Using

How to use timer for for next loop in visual basic 2008

I have a case where i need to generate millions of unique codes. For this I have created a generate function where the random number is generated. I call this function from a for loop and add the generated number on a list box. my code is as follow
for i=1 to val(txtnumber.txt)
mynum=generate()
next
I have created a lable on form where i wanted to display the no of secs elapsed while processing the loop. I used timer control as
timer1.start()
for i=1 to val(txtnumber.text)
mynum=generate()
listbox1.items.add(mynum)
next
timer1.stop
and on timer1_tick function
Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
Label1.Text = Val(Label1.Text) + 1
End Sub
but when i click generate button, all numbers are generated, but timer doesnot shows time elapsed.
I may have missed something, so please help me out
This is probably best handled in a BackgroundWorker. Place one on the form and set its WorkerReportsProgress=True. Also, placing a million numbers in a ListBox probably isn't a good idea, so I omitted that.
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Button1.Enabled = False
BackgroundWorker1.RunWorkerAsync()
End Sub
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_DoWork(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DoWorkEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.DoWork
Dim started As DateTime = Now
For i As Integer = 1 To val(txtnumber.txt)
mynum=generate()
BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(i, Nothing)
Next
Dim ended As TimeSpan = Now.Subtract(started)
BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(0, ended.TotalSeconds.ToString)
End Sub
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_ProgressChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ProgressChangedEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.ProgressChanged
If e.UserState IsNot Nothing Then
Label1.Text = e.UserState.ToString()
Else
Label1.Text = e.ProgressPercentage.ToString
End If
End Sub
Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_RunWorkerCompleted(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.RunWorkerCompleted
Button1.Enabled = True
End Sub
Your label should be updating correctly when the worker reports the ProgressChanged event.
What you're encountering is a threading issue. The work you are doing to generate the numbers is being executing by the UI thread, so it never gets a chance to update the screen. Take a look here: How to prevent UI from freezing during lengthy process?
This one might also have good information for you: Updating UI from another thread
Try this:
Private _Counter As Integer = 0
Private _StartTime As Date = Now
Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
_StartTime = Now
_Counter = CInt(Val(txtnumber.Text))
ListBox1.Items.Clear()
Label1.Text = "0"
Timer1.Interval = 50
Timer1.Start()
End Sub
Private Sub Timer1_Tick(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
ListBox1.Items.Add(generate())
Label1.Text = New Date((Now - _StartTime).Ticks).ToString("HH:mm:ss.ff")
_Counter -= 1
If (_Counter <= 0) Then
Timer1.Stop()
End If
End Sub
Or you can research actual Threading.