C# – Continuous progressbar in WPF

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In the winforms we have a property called continuous that will show the progress bar from 0 till it hits 100.

I was looking for the same effect in WPF but from what I searched it leaded me to change the IsIndeterminate to true which doesnt give me the continuous effect only a weird effect of the part of the progressbar walking around.

To display an example of what I am talking about, the below image represents the continuous effect I am after:

Ilustrative example

Back to the question, how do I do that in WPF ?

Best Answer

The WPF ProgressBar does not have the Continous option. If you are on XP, or using the Luna themes, you will get the segmented look.

This question describes how the Aero theme can be applied, but otherwise you'd have to restyle the progress bar.

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Both of the prior responses (creating a new CustomControl or an Adorner) are better practices, but if you just want quick and dirty (or to understand visually how to do it) then this code would work:

<Grid Width="300" Height="50">  
   <ProgressBar Value="50" />
   <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
      My Text
   </TextBlock>
</Grid>

Just keep in mind that the z-index is such that the last item listed will be on top.

Also, if you don't have Kaxaml yet, be sure to pick it up - it is great for playing with XAML when you're trying to figure things out.

Python – Transpose/Unzip Function (inverse of zip)

zip is its own inverse! Provided you use the special * operator.

>>> zip(*[('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3), ('d', 4)])
[('a', 'b', 'c', 'd'), (1, 2, 3, 4)]

The way this works is by calling zip with the arguments:

zip(('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3), ('d', 4))

… except the arguments are passed to zip directly (after being converted to a tuple), so there's no need to worry about the number of arguments getting too big.

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