Using Progressbar in c# windows application

Question

The user will be able to search for some document in the local machine and i want to show user, a progress bar during my program searches. To be more clear, i have foreach loop for which i want to tie up my progress bar to show the progress. my foreach loop and progress should work simultaneously. Is this possible to do ?

Answer 1

From ProgressBar Class

You can try something like

private void CopyWithProgress(string[] filenames)
{
    // Display the ProgressBar control.
    pBar1.Visible = true;
    // Set Minimum to 1 to represent the first file being copied.
    pBar1.Minimum = 1;
    // Set Maximum to the total number of files to copy.
    pBar1.Maximum = filenames.Length;
    // Set the initial value of the ProgressBar.
    pBar1.Value = 1;
    // Set the Step property to a value of 1 to represent each file being copied.
    pBar1.Step = 1;

    // Loop through all files to copy.
    for (int x = 1; x <= filenames.Length; x++)
    {
        // Copy the file and increment the ProgressBar if successful.
        if(CopyFile(filenames[x-1]) == true)
        {
            // Perform the increment on the ProgressBar.
            pBar1.PerformStep();
        }
    }
}

EDIT

For longer running task, you might also consider using BackgroundWorker Class