Text on a ProgressBar in WPF

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.

Both of the prior responses (creating a new CustomControl or an Adorner) are better practices, but if you just want quick and dirty (or to understand visually how to do it) then this code would work:

<Grid Width="300" Height="50">  
   <ProgressBar Value="50" />
   <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
      My Text
   </TextBlock>
</Grid>

Just keep in mind that the z-index is such that the last item listed will be on top.

Also, if you don't have Kaxaml yet, be sure to pick it up - it is great for playing with XAML when you're trying to figure things out.

This can be very simple (unless there are alot of ways getting this to work).

You could use Style to get this done or you just overlay a TextBlock and a ProgressBar.

I personally use this to show the percentage of the progress when waiting for completion.

To keep it very simple I only wanted to have one Binding only, so I attached the TextBock.Text to the ProgressBar.Value.

                                           Then just copy the Code to get it done.

<Grid>
   <ProgressBar Minimum="0" 
                Maximum="100" 
                Value="{Binding InsertBindingHere}" 
                Name="pbStatus" />
   <TextBlock Text="{Binding ElementName=pbStatus, Path=Value, StringFormat={}{0:0}%}" 
           HorizontalAlignment="Center" 
           VerticalAlignment="Center" />
</Grid>

                                                Here is how this could look like:

                                   

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