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VB.NET Marquee Progress Until Process Exits

While I have some VBScript experience, this is my first attempt at creating a very simple VB.NET (Windows Forms Application) wrapper for a command line application. Please be kind!

I have a very simple GUI with two buttons that both do an action and I'd like to show a marquee progress bar until the action (read: the process) is complete (read: exits).

The 'save' button does this:

Dim SaveEXE As Process = Process.Start('save.exe', '/whatever /arguments')


From there I'm starting the marquee progress bar:

ProgressBar1.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Marquee
ProgressBar1.MarqueeAnimationSpeed = 60
ProgressBar1.Refresh()


I thought I could use SaveEXE.WaitForExit() but the Marquee starts, then stops in the middle until the process exits. Not very useful for those watching; they'll think it hung.

I thought maybe I could do something like this but that causes my VB.Net app to crash

Do
ProgressBar1.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Marquee
ProgressBar1.MarqueeAnimationSpeed = 60
ProgressBar1.Refresh()
Loop Until SaveEXE.ExitCode = 0
ProgressBar1.MarqueeAnimationSpeed = 60
ProgressBar1.Refresh()


I'm not entirely sure what needs to be done, short of getting some formal training.

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