How can I stop the WPF ProgressBar pulsing/animating when it reaches 100%?

Question

I have an MVVM-based WPF 4 application which uses a ProgressBar to show the percentage completion of a long-running operation.

Answer 1

Dabblernl's answer is robust. Here is a hack (because it relies on the internal name of the element that does the glow, which is an implementation detail and may change in a subsequent version):

void SetGlowVisibility(ProgressBar progressBar, Visibility visibility) {
    var anim = progressBar.Template.FindName("Animation", progressBar) as FrameworkElement;
    if (anim != null)
        anim.Visibility = visibility;
}

If how a ProgressBar is implemented changes, this hack may stop working.

On the other hand, a solution that completely replaces the XAML and styles may lock-in and fix colours, borders etc. and disable behaviour that might be added to a newer version of the ProgressBar in the future...

Edit: The implementation detail did change. Changed "PART_GlowRect" to "Animation" -- the former is used only in aero.normalcolor.xaml, while the latter is used in more recent aero2.normalcolor.xaml and aerolite.normalcolor.xaml too.