Progress tutorial

[regwood79]

Hi everyone this is my first post:
I am a complete noob to vb.net I am creating a gui frontend that will take data from a text file and load it to a mysql db. I want to create a progress bar that will show how much of the proccess has completed. But I don't quite understand the mechanics of the control. I was wondering if someone could help me out or point me to a good tutorial on the control. any help would really be appreciated.

 

[Luc]

Don't really see whats so hard about it

Progressbar.maximum = MaximumValue
Progressbar.minimum = MinimumValue
Progressbar.value = CurrentValue

What you can do is assign to the maximumvalue the lines of data that needs to be written and assign to the currentvalue the lines that are already written.
Not really an expert myself but here's my 50 cent

 

[vis781]

My honest opinion... Don't bother, everyone seems to want to use progress bars, frankly i think they are a bit ugly. I prefer to just pop up a small,basic form with a little animation or something on it to let the user know that something is happening then close it when the work is done.