MMC AsyncStatus (inside MmcListView) is not displaying status

Question

When using the MMC (Microsoft Management Console) 3.0 I cannot get AsyncStatus message shown in console window.

I assume it is supposed to be displayed in the status bar of the MMC.

When using the StandardVerb (like OnRefresh or OnExpand) at least it is working with its default message (like Expand: In progress...)

However, when I try to use status.ReportProgress([...]) or status.Complete([...]) it does not work.

Example:

class MyMMCListview : MmcListView {
    [...]
    protected override void OnAction(Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Action action, AsyncStatus status)
    {
        status.ReportProgress(1, 2, "Loading 1");
        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000);
        status.ReportProgress(2, 2, "Loading 2");
        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000);
        // default behavior
        base.OnAction(action, status)

        // Nothing done successfully
        status.Complete("Done", true);
    }
    [...]
}

MmcListView: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.managementconsole.mmclistview_members(v=vs.90).aspx

AsyncStatus: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/microsoft.managementconsole.asyncstatus(v=vs.85).aspx

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I've tested this several times and it seems that ReportProgress and Complete are showing a message in the status bar only when they where called from an override in a ScopeNode.