To display the status of background jobs, you click either the Job Status button or Task Status button in the status bar. Which button appears depends on the WDK application you are using.

You would view job or task status, for example, if demoting a file is performed asynchronously. To find out if the job has completed, you click the button.

The button appears “dirty” if you have unread status messages reported by an asynchronous task.

An animated image appears next to the button if there is an ongoing asynchronous task.

To update status, click Refresh.