progress bars

I am trying to display a progress indicator when my application reads data from an excel spreadsheet and writes it to an XML file. But the progress indicator does not work also, when performing the operation, the labels on the progress bar dialog become transparent.

Hey Guys, I had some trouble a while back with my progress bars exeeding their maximum sizes. I though I had fixed the problem but obviously I was wrong every time the maximum size is exeeded the application enteres debugging mode .... this is really frustrating as the progress bars are a...