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Introduction

Would you like to add some visual enhancement to your windows forms application? Do you have processes that take too long? This control is for you.

Basically, it is a progress bar but it is circular. You can fully customize it's appearance. For example, you can change the ring thickness, number of segments, ring color, progress color, interval, etc.

Control can be added to the toolbox and it can be added to controls by just dragging and dropping from toolbox.

It is an open source (C#) project and compiled with .net framework 2.0

Using the code

It is pretty simple to use the control. All you need to do is to set control's Rotate property to true to start the circle.

this.progressBar1.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Transparent;
this.progressBar1.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Gold;
this.progressBar1.Interval = 100;
this.progressBar1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(235, 90);
this.progressBar1.Name = "progressBar1";
this.progressBar1.RingColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
this.progressBar1.RingThickness = 30;
this.progressBar1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(80, 80);
this.progressBar1.Rotate = true;

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The original article is published on my personal blog page.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The GNU General Public License (GPL)

About the Author

Umut Tezduyar

Interests:
Operating Systems
Embedded Systems
.Net Framework
C#
Asp.net

Eduation:
MS Computer Science

Occupation:	Software Developer
Location:	United States

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