Disabling .NET progressbar animation when changing value?

Question

I realize there are other questions on SO regarding animations and progressbars, but they seem to revolve around getting rid of the animation drawn on top of the progress ba

Answer 1

There is another way to skip the animation of a vista-style progress bar: Just SetState() the control to PBST_PAUSED, then set the value and finally set it back to PBST_NORMAL.