How to make the cleanest code when reporting progress to a user?

Question

I\'ve struggled for the last couple of months to come up with some clean code to report progress to a user. Everything always seems to boil down to:

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Answer 1

I wouldn't hand-code the numeric parts of the displayed messages like that (any time you need to add or remove actions or change the sequence you've got a mess of cut-and-paste to do). You'd want whatever object is handling the ReportProgress method to auto-increment itself as it goes along.