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Working with ProgressBar in C#

You need progress bars to display the progress of your application or background tasks.

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Assembly: System.Windows.Forms.dll
Namespace: System.Windows.Forms

The Progressbar class provides progress bar control functionality in the .NET framework. You need progress bars to display the progress of your application or background tasks.

There are only three members of the ProgressBar class you should know about. The Maximum, the Minimum, and the Value properties.

You create a progress bar control using ProgressBar constructor.

this.progressBar1 = new System.WinForms.ProgressBar();

After creating instance of a progress bar you set the range of the progress bar by using Minimum and Maximum properties of the ProgressBar.

progressBar1.Maximum = 200;
progressBar1.Manimum=0;

The Step property is used to set number of steps in a progress bar.

progressBar1.Step=20;

The Value property is used to set the current value of the status bar.

protected void timer1_Tick (object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
if (progressBar1.Value >= 200 )
{
progressBar1.Value = 0;
}
return;
}
progressBar1.Value += 20;
}


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Contents added by Alan C Balkany on Jun 17, 2009
The article is short and simple, which is good, but it's TOO short and simple.  A working example that can be copied and pasted would make this article infinitely more useful.  Also compiling the code before posting it would allow the typos to be identified and corrected.
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Some Clarification by Mahadevakumar On May 3, 2007
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Re: Some Clarification by Sreejith On March 16, 2009
its the code for progress bar thank you
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progress bar with oracleconnection by aissam On July 26, 2007
hello i have problem to execute progress bar with oracel connection this is my code: Timer1.Start() Try Dim cn As New OracleConnection("Password=password;User ID=dph;Data Source=creative;Persist Security Info=True") cn.Open() cn.Close() Catch ex As Exception MsgBox("sdsqdqdq") End Try Timer1.Stop() think you
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Working with Progress Bar by Surendra On January 28, 2009
Hi, This is Surendra Gurjar, I learn from the this tutorial and it is very useful.
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error in progressbar.increment(i) check the code by Sreejith On March 16, 2009
using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.ComponentModel;
 using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
 using System.Threading;
 namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
 {
 public partial class Form1 : Form { Thread st; public Form1() { InitializeComponent();
 }
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
st = new Thread(new ThreadStart(load));
 }
public void load()
 {
for (int i=0;i<=100;i=i+1)
 {
progressBar1.Increment(i);
statusStrip1.Text = progressBar1.Value.ToString() + "%omplete"; Thread.Sleep(500); }
}
private void progressBar1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
}
 private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
st.Start();
 }
private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
 if (st.IsAlive)
{
 st.Abort();
 } } } }
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Re: error in progressbar.increment(i) check the code by Bechir On March 18, 2009

Ok my freind you have made a serious mistake, you have made an illegal cross threaded manipulation, I explain, you have invoked the both progressbar1 and statusbar1 outside the thread where they have been created. As a solution to this problem you have to create a delegate that points to a method that perform the controls' modifications (progress for the progress bar and text change for the statusbar) and then invoke this delegate inside the thread method like this

 public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
           
        }
        //The thread
        Thread st;
        //The delegate instance
        Progress p;
        //The delegate class
        public delegate void Progress();

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            st = new Thread(new ThreadStart(load));
            p = new Progress(Perform);

        }
        //The method that will be pointed by  the delegate instance
        public void Perform()
        {
            for (int i = 0; i <= 100; i = i + 1)
            {
                progressBar1.Increment(i);
                statusStrip1.Text = progressBar1.Value.ToString() + "%omplete"; Thread.Sleep(10);
            }
            DialogResult dlg = MessageBox.Show("Do you want to close this window", "Do you want to exit this window", MessageBoxButtons.OKCancel);
            if (dlg == DialogResult.OK) Application.Exit();
          
        }
        //The thread method
        public void load()
        {
            Form1 form = this;
            form.Invoke(p);
        }
        //The button that triggers the thread
        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
           st.Start();
           //To avoid thread multi invocation
           button1.Enabled = false;
        }
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Re: Re: error in progressbar stop code by Sreejith On April 19, 2009
Thanx pal for making it currect ,well the progressbar is working fine but the stop button is not working .I know calling abort in thread is not fair ,,can u make that stop button currect ...
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working with Progress bar in c# by Muhammad Rehan On March 21, 2009
Hi I m Rehan Qureshi.........This code solved my big problems about the working of progress bar without experience........thank for that
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Re: working with Progress bar in c# by mark On December 24, 2009
Progress bar is simple, is it for web browser or just basic load of an event?
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thank by arun On January 1, 2010
Thank u
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C# Progress Bar by Ali On February 11, 2010

To understand how the C# Progress Bar works, read this post.

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