title: VSTO splash screen or progress bar
body: <p>I have a project that I'm doing with </p>
  
  <pre><code>Microsoft VSTO (office 2013 excel) 
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  <p>I have certain things that make calls that take maybe 10 seconds to come back.</p>
  
  <p>Ideally I would like to display an progress bar or some status... After a lot of searching I found an article that is titled:</p>
  
  <p>How do I create a splash screen window for the VSTO applications?
  <a href="http://www.datazx.cn/Fv7p5a/xw/oa2v/2q7xs6/mcccjfti-988m-f8r8-8d44-bstb4rfsi4xm23rsdfd.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.datazx.cn/Fv7p5a/xw/oa2v/2q7xs6/mcccjfti-988m-f8r8-8d44-bstb4rfsi4xm23rsdfd.html</a></p>
  
  <p>So I started creating this code in a form, but then I realize that I need to call it up within my methods and really attach events etc...  </p>
  
  <p>The article says to </p>
  
  <pre><code>"display a modal form on a background thread"   What is the best way to do this?
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