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

If you are needing to have a reusable method for adding text, you can create a new Style/ControlTemplate that has an additional TextBlock to display the text. You can hijack the TextSearch.Text attached property to set the text on a progress bar.

If it doesn't need to be reusable, simply put the progress bar in a Grid and add a TextBlock to the grid. Since WPF can compose elements together, this will work nicely.

If you want, you can create a UserControl that exposes the ProgressBar and TextBlock as public properties, so it would be less work than creating a custom ControlTemplate.