Using a ProgressBar control

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 Hiya all.

I recenlty made a cheezy test program to just roll dice.  I put a ProgressBar control to show give the end user an idea of how many rolls are left.

Well, I noticed that when I tried to do 10000 consecutive rolls, the program slows waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down.  When I had this all setup as a console app, it screamed no matter how many times I tried to roll the die.  I'm guessing this perf hit is because of the UI in general, but is there anything I can do to speed this up?  Is this something that someone would use threading on to improve perf?

Thanks in advance to anyone who answers.  :)