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

You could use an Adorner to display text over top of it.

See MSDN article on Adorners

You would create a class that inherits from the Adorner class. Override the OnRender method to draw the text that you want. If you want you could create a dependency property for your custom Adorner that contains the text that you want to display. Then use the example in the link I mentioned to add this Adorner to your progress bar's adorner layer.