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title: "Progress Bar control in WPF"
description: "ProgressBar elements in XAML is used to create a progress bar control in WPF. We can use concept of progress bar control when we want to show some ba"
author: "Anonymous User"
published: 2011-04-04
updated: 2019-09-07
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/533/progress-bar-control-in-wpf
category: "wpf"
tags: ["wpf"]
reading_time: 2 minutes
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# Progress Bar control in WPF
[elements](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1440/wpf-button-with-multiple-text-elements) in XAML is used to create a [progress bar](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12747/android-progress-bar) [control](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/83439/bipartisan-gun-control-bill-passed-in-us-after-decades) in WPF. We can use [concept](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/79/routing-concept-in-dot-net) of progress bar control when we want to show some [background processing](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/99879/how-does-android-handle-background-processing-and-multitasking) or want to show status of large calculating job, then we use concept of progress bar control.\
##### Some properties related with Progress Bar control
- **X: Name**—x: Name [property](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/198559/an-ownership-of-property-in-hua-hin) is used to set a unique identifier to your progress bar control.
- **Width**—Width property are used to set width of your progress bar control.
- **Height**—Height property are used to set height of your progress bar control.
- **Value**—Value property is used to set or get value of progress bar.
- **VerticalAlignment**—VerticalAlignment property is used to set [vertical](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/12951/how-to-fix-bootstrap-tab-vertical-with-text) alignment of your progress bar control.
- **HorizontalAlignment**—HorizontalAlignment property is used to set horizontal alignment of your progress bar control.
##### A XAML code snippet represents a Progress Bar control
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##### Output of the above code snippet is as follows
On the load event of window write the following code to change value of the progress bar.
```
private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e){ Duration dd = new Duration(new TimeSpan(10)); //creating an object of the duration class. DoubleAnimation da = new DoubleAnimation(30.0, dd); //Creating an object of the double animation class. progressBar1.BeginAnimation(ProgressBar.ValueProperty, da); //Begin the animation in progress bar control.}
```
##### Output of the following code snippet is as follows
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