Progress bar while serialization

[sumitmahajan81]

I am serializing a object, using XMl serialization. And it takes a while, as its a big tree structure.

How can I display a progress bar showing the serialization status?

Please advise.

Thanks

[hoopy]

Can you not do it via Ajax and display some sort of message explaining the operation is in progress while the Ajax call is being processed?

[Markus]

That's a tough one.

Using progress bars coupled with PHP is inherently hard. Determining the the eventual size of the serialized object will be even harder.

[sumitmahajan81]

Its win app. And I need to display to user the progress of serialization.