Create Progress bar in windows application

Steps to create ProgressBar:
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Create Color fade busy bar using

private System.Windows.Forms.BusyBar.ColorFadeBusyBar progressBar;
add it to your initialize component

this.progressBar = new System.Windows.Forms.BusyBar.ColorFadeBusyBar();

This will auto generate while you create the component. Set the properties

this.progressBar.BackColor = System.Drawing.SystemColors.Control;
this.progressBar.BorderStyle3D = System.Windows.Forms.Border3DStyle.SunkenInner;
this.progressBar.Color2 = System.Drawing.SystemColors.Control;
this.progressBar.FadeLength = -30;
this.progressBar.ForeColor = System.Drawing.SystemColors.Highlight;
this.progressBar.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(191, 3);
this.progressBar.Name = "progressBar";
this.progressBar.PingPong = true;
this.progressBar.ShowBorder = true;
this.progressBar.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(86, 18);
this.progressBar.StepSize = 1;
this.progressBar.StepTimeout = 25;
this.progressBar.TabIndex = 65;
this.progressBar.Visible = false;

///
/// This method starts the progress bar
///
private void StartProgress() {
    progressBar.Show();
    progressBar.Start();
}

///
/// This method stops the progress bar
///
private void StopProgress() {
    progressBar.Hide();
    progressBar.Stop();
}

At last you will need thread process which writes and call this start and stop methods,.

///
/// This method starts a thread for reading the output from the transport
///

private void WaitingThread() {
    //Thread waiting for the output stream of the process
    StartProgress();
    int TimeOutPeriod = 30; //sec
    DateTime expireTime = DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(TimeOutPeriod);
    outputThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(ReadFromLoginOutput));
    isApplicationTimedOut = false;
    outputThread.Start();
    while (outputThread.IsAlive && outputThread.ThreadState !=              System.Threading.ThreadState.AbortRequested) {
        Thread.Sleep(100);

      if(TimeOuPeriodt > 0) && (DateTime.Compare(expireTime, DateTime.Now) < 0)) {
        outputThread.Abort();
        isApplicationTimedOut = true;
      }
      Application.DoEvents();
      }
     StopProgress();
}

you can fetch the output from standard output in ReadfromLoginOutput method.

Regards,
Megha

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Perry posted at Friday, October 17, 2008 10:19 AM

deepak replied to Perry at Friday, October 17, 2008 1:15 PM

hi Megha,