Load a form much faster

[dbrunellemdil]

I am doing a local application in VB.Net 2005 that connect to SQL server 2005 to gather information. I have one big form in which I have a lot of control (and I mean a whopping lot, a few hundreds at least and no I can't really trim it down ) .
Most of those controls take data from the database and load it into the screen and this take a while. However, most of there controls are not available at start so if I could open the form and display it, then load the rest while the user start working that would make the loading seem much faster.
I am not really used to work with threads or other stuff, so I don't really know how to do it using that, but I fancy something of the sort might actually be feasable.

[RedSon]

I am doing a local application in VB.Net 2005 that connect to SQL server 2005 to gather information. I have one big form in which I have a lot of control (and I mean a whopping lot, a few hundreds at least and no I can't really trim it down ) .
Most of those controls take data from the database and load it into the screen and this take a while. However, most of there controls are not available at start so if I could open the form and display it, then load the rest while the user start working that would make the loading seem much faster.
I am not really used to work with threads or other stuff, so I don't really know how to do it using that, but I fancy something of the sort might actually be feasable.

Why not try a little loading dialog, the user can enter in the few informations you need to get started then you can spin a thread to access the database and the process thread can continue to load the form.