[How to] XP style progress bar in Visual studio 2008 on windows 8, please help me

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Hello,

Its been days, im trying to get a progress bar like this: when i click on a button, progress should go to %100 slowly, with a timer.

IC82113.gif

1. I click on a button.
2. Progress bar starts filling with "blocks" by "blocks" in XP style. Im using win8 and its like this:

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Please help me with this, i will greatly appriciate if you can code this and give me all the project files. A button and a progress bar is all im asking....

I know its very basic, but im no coder.

please help guys....
 
I searched on google and all the vb forums, coder forums, programmer forums, even started asking help from them by posting threads. also yahoo answers.

plz help guys...

thanks
 
man a progress bar is easy if you use a background worker and worker report progress. Do you need an app coded?
 
man a progress bar is easy if you use a background worker and worker report progress. Do you need an app coded?

yeah just like this one:
http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/dynimg/IC82113.gif

Can you please give me the codings,project files as well? so i can copy them and use it for other programs.

thanks for offering help.

Im using windows 8, visual studio 2008. I need a XP style progress bar.
 
Try looking for progress workers as roach suggested. A progress worker runs in a separate thread and will allow you to update the GUI.

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Workers work in a separate thread allowing the GUI to update, without the second thread the GUI would lock up until 100% occurs.

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Sorry, still getting used to tapatalk - i can post some code tomorrow if you like?

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man a progress bar is easy if you use a background worker and worker report progress. Do you need an app coded?
 
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