Generation of a report in background or asynchronously.?

Hello, I have a report that takes many seconds to generate, as I am making an spanish application I dont want the user to see that the report is being generating, I would like to put my own message and then show the report when its ready.

Any ideas?

If you are using the report in a windows application I would suggest using the new backgroundworker control. It is very easy to use and works great! You could also you the subscriptions feature to schedule large reports to run in off hours and be delivered automatically to a windows share or email.

|||I am using a web application not winforms|||Ajax may be what you are looking for?
http://ajax.schwarz-interactive.de/csharpsample/default.aspx
Another workaround may be to run the report in an Iframe that is very small, and then redirect to the exported html afterwards.