C# Excel VBA Side by Side Displaying an hourglass for a long running process

During a long running process, its a common Windows convention to display an hourglass/wait cursor.

Excel VBA

Option Explicit

Sub ShowHourGlass()

Application.Cursor = xlWait

‘Code here

Application.Cursor = xlDefault

End Sub

Tip: In Excel, when running a long process you also do additionally things to speed up the apparent speed.  Generally, the following propeties:
Application.ScreenUpdating and Application.DisplayAlerts are set to false and then turned back when the process ends.

Access VBA

 DoCmd.Hourglass True

C#

try
                {
                    objTask = new cTask();
                    strFileName = @"Z:\RMS\Back end\CDL\test CDL Reference Data - RMS.xls";
                    strAccessDb = @"H:\Projects\MDL\Locally Booked Update\WizardMDL Front End.accdb";
                    intStartTime = Environment.TickCount;
                    Application.UseWaitCursor = true;
                    recordsAffected = objTask.RefreshCDLReferenceFile(strFileName, strFileNameAccess: strAccessDb);
                    intEndTime = Environment.TickCount;
                    decElapsedTime = (decimal)((intEndTime - intStartTime) * .001);
                    MessageBox.Show("Imported " + recordsAffected.ToString() + " row(s) in " + decElapsedTime.ToString() + " sec(s)", "Results", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information);

                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, program, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information);
                }
                finally
                {
                    Application.UseWaitCursor = false;
                }