Text on a ProgressBar in WPF

Question

This may be a no-brainer for the WPF cognoscenti, but I\'d like to know if there\'s a simple way to put text on the WPF ProgressBar. To me, an empty progress bar looks naked. Th

Answer 1

This can be very simple (unless there are alot of ways getting this to work).

You could use Style to get this done or you just overlay a TextBlock and a ProgressBar.

I personally use this to show the percentage of the progress when waiting for completion.

To keep it very simple I only wanted to have one Binding only, so I attached the TextBock.Text to the ProgressBar.Value.

                                           Then just copy the Code to get it done.

                                                Here is how this could look like:

                                   

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