Displaying Information with the StatusBar Control

WPF enables you to place status bars at the bottom of a Window. This is accomplished by declaring a StatusBar object that nests StatusBarItems elements. The good news is that you are not limited to adding text to a StatusBar because you can add several kinds of visual elements. The following example shows adding text and a ProgressBar into a StatusBar:

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<StatusBar>    <StatusBarItem Name="Item1" Content="Ready"/>    <StatusBarItem Name="Item2">        <ProgressBar Name="Progress1"            Minimum="0" Maximum="200" Value="50"            Width="50" Height="15" />    </StatusBarItem></StatusBar>

Figure 29.19 shows the result of the preceding code. You access members ...

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