Creating a Realistic Progress Bar
Written by Eric Smith, Northstar Computer Systems LLC
In most installation routines, you'll see a progress bar that supposedly represents how far along in the process you are. The funny thing is that the installation progress bar always seems to sit on 95% or 98% forever. If you're building one of these for your application, I'd suggest looking at your process realistically to determine approximately how long it's going to take to do each task. If you're creating a database, for instance, each table creation will take approximately the same amount of time. If you have 10 tables, each time you complete a table, you could increment your progress bar by 10%. If you have additional tasks, time how long they take and adjust your timing appropriately. I'd also suggest running the timing on multiple machines so that you get as accurate a timing as possible.
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ASP Performance
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Publication Date: 10/1/2000
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