Windows Forms Progressbar: Easiest Way to Start/Stop Marquee

Windows Forms ProgressBar: Easiest way to start/stop marquee?

Use a progress bar with the style set to Marquee. This represents an indeterminate progress bar.

myProgressBar.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Marquee;

You can also use the MarqueeAnimationSpeed property to set how long it will take the little block of color to animate across your progress bar.

C# - ProgressBar with Marquee style

I've checked several posts about BackgroundWorker, but in my case the
operation doesn't report progress, that's why I need a Marquee bar.

You can use the BackgroundWorker, just don't use the "progress" portion of it. These two things are not mutually exclusive...

Example:

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        button1.Enabled = false;
        progressBar1.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Marquee;
        progressBar1.MarqueeAnimationSpeed = 50;

        BackgroundWorker bw = new BackgroundWorker();
        bw.DoWork += bw_DoWork;
        bw.RunWorkerCompleted += bw_RunWorkerCompleted;
        bw.RunWorkerAsync();
    }

    void bw_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
    {
        // INSERT TIME CONSUMING OPERATIONS HERE
        // THAT DON'T REPORT PROGRESS
        Thread.Sleep(10000);
    }

    void bw_RunWorkerCompleted(object sender, RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
    {
        progressBar1.MarqueeAnimationSpeed = 0;
        progressBar1.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Blocks;
        progressBar1.Value = progressBar1.Minimum;

        button1.Enabled = true;
        MessageBox.Show("Done!");
    }

how to stop a progress bar control from well progressing

Set the Style property to a value other than Marquee:

progressBar.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Marquee; // marquee animation starts
progressBar.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Continuous; // marquee animation stops

Winform marquee progress bar freezes

As stated in my comment, the use of Wait-Job will block your current thread hence the form will also become unresponsive. Instead, you can use a loop while or do, to wait for your job and call Application.DoEvents Method as a workaround:

$button.Add_Click({
    $ProgressBar1.Show()
    $this.Enabled = $false
    $job = Start-Job -ScriptBlock  {
        Get-ChildItem -File -Recurse $HOME -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    }
    while($job.State -eq 'Running') {
        [System.Windows.Forms.Application]::DoEvents()
    }
    $job | Receive-Job -AutoRemoveJob -Wait | Out-Host
    $ProgressBar1.Hide()
    $this.Enabled = $true
})

How to run a progress bar for entire duration of a button (C# Windows Form)

Mark your button1 Click() handler with async, then use await and Task.Run:

    private async void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // START PROGRESS BAR MOVEMENT:
        button1.Enabled = false;
        pb.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Marquee;
        pb.Show();

        // DO THE WORK ON A DIFFERENT THREAD:
        await (Task.Run(() =>
        {
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000); // simulated work (remove this and uncomment the two lines below)
            //LoadDatabase.Groups();
            //ProcessResults.GroupOne();
        }));

        // END PROGRESS BAR MOVEMENT:
        pb.Hide();
        button1.Enabled = true;
    }

How to start a progressbar at a certain position in a stop/play animation? [Xamarin forms]

try something like this to set the initial value of the animation

var animation = new Animation (v => progressBar.Progress = v, 0.3, 1);

animation.Commit (this, "SimpleAnimation", 16, 2000, Easing.Linear, (v, c) => image.Scale = 1, () => false);

to cancel

this.AbortAnimation ("SimpleAnimation");

How can I make an endless progressbar in WinForms?

System.Windows.Forms.ProgressBar has a property called Style. Setting Style to Marquee will achieve the effect your looking for.

EDIT: Divo points out the Marquee Style is only available on

Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003

The comments provide even more information indicating that this appears to work everywhere as long as you're using .NET 2.0 or higher.

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