Getting Started with WinForms ProgressBar

In this tutorial, you will use a RadProgressBar to show the progress of a long-running operation. The long-running operation is simulated with a Timer control.

1. Place a RadProgressBar control, a RadButton control, and a standard Timer control on a form.

2. Set the Timer control Interval property to 50.

3. In the Properties window, click the events button.

4. Double-click the Tick event.

5. Replace the automatically-generated event handler with this code:

Handling the Timer Tick event

int ticks = 0;
private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    ticks++;
    radProgressBar1.Value1 = ticks;
    if (ticks == 100)
    {
        timer1.Enabled = false;
        ticks = 0;
    }
}

Private ticks As Integer = 0
Private Sub timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    ticks += 1
    RadProgressBar1.Value1 = ticks
    If ticks = 100 Then
        Timer1.Enabled = False
        ticks = 0
    End If
End Sub

6. In the design view of the form, select the RadButton control.

7. In the Properties window set the Text property to "Go!".

8. In the Properties window, click the events button.

9. Double-click the Click event.

10. Replace the automatically-generated event handler with this code:

void radButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    timer1.Enabled = true;
}

Private Sub radButton1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    Timer1.Enabled = True
End Sub

11. In the design view of the form select the RadProgressBar control.

12. Set Dash to true.

13. Set Text to an empty string.

14. Set SeparatorColor1 to Yellow.

15. Set SeparatorColor2 to Gold.

16. Set SeparatorWidth to 6.

17. Set StepWidth to 12.

18. Set SweepAngle to 210.

19. Press F5 to run the project.

20. Click the Go Button to see the Telerik RadProgressBar animation.