Progress Bar

Essential Object offers a complete free to use progress bar for ASP.net. It is very nice tool with great flexibility for user to change the layout and it's very easy to use. Here is the link. However, the disadvantage is you'll have to install the full asp.net control set to your VS. The dll has to be included in the bin folder to deploy the site. (Telerik has a progress bar only for using with the upload control. I find it is odd that they didn't including a progress bar for general use.)

An alternative solution is to use an simple user control. The disadvantage is the look & feel of the progress bar. It's not as good looking as the progress bar from EO, but you can get the full source code. Here is the code in c#:

ProgressBar.aspx:
<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="ProgressBar.ascx.cs" Inherits="ProgressBar" %>

BorderWidth="1px"
CellPadding="1"
CellSpacing="1"
Height="10px"
Width="200px">

ProgressBar.ascx.cs
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

public partial class ProgressBar : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
private System.Drawing.Color _colFillColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green;
private System.Drawing.Color _colBackcolor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
private System.Drawing.Color _colBorderColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black;
private int _intBorder = 1;
private int _intCellspacing = 1;
private int _intCellpadding = 1;
private int _intHeight = 15;
private int _intWidth = 130;
private int _intBlockNumber = 20;
private int _intValue;
TableRow _tblBlock;

public System.Drawing.Color BGColor
{
get
{
return _colBackcolor;
}
set
{
_colBackcolor = value;
}
}

public System.Drawing.Color FillColor
{
get
{
return _colFillColor;
}
set
{
_colFillColor = value;
}
}

public System.Drawing.Color BorderColor
{
get
{
return _colBorderColor;
}
set
{
_colBorderColor = value;
}
}

public int BorderSize
{
get
{
return _intBorder;
}
set
{
_intBorder = value;
}
}

public int Cellpadding
{
get
{
return _intCellpadding;
}
set
{
_intCellpadding = value;
}
}

public int CellSpacing
{
get
{
return _intCellspacing;
}
set
{
_intCellspacing = value;
}
}

public int Blocks
{
get
{
return _intBlockNumber;
}
set
{
_intBlockNumber = value;
}
}

public int Value
{
get
{
return _intValue;
}
set
{
_intValue = value;
}
}

public int Height
{
get
{
return _intHeight;
}
set
{
_intHeight = value;
}
}

public int Width
{
get
{
return _intWidth;
}
set
{
_intWidth = value;
}
}

protected void Page_PreRender(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
int intBlocks;
// add a new row to the table
_tblBlock = new TableRow();
// create cells and add to the row
for (intBlocks = 1; (intBlocks <= this.Blocks); intBlocks++)
{
TableCell tblCell = new TableCell();
tblCell.Text = " ";
decimal temp = (Convert.ToDecimal(this.Blocks) / 100) * Convert.ToDecimal(this.Value);
if ((intBlocks <= temp))
{
tblCell.BackColor = this.FillColor;
}
_tblBlock.Cells.Add(tblCell);
}
tblProgressBar.Rows.Add(_tblBlock);
// set the progress bar properties
tblProgressBar.CellPadding = this.Cellpadding;
tblProgressBar.CellSpacing = this.CellSpacing;
tblProgressBar.Width = this.Width;
tblProgressBar.Height = this.Height;
tblProgressBar.BackColor = this.BGColor;
tblProgressBar.BorderColor = this.BorderColor;
LabelProgress.Text = this.Value + "% complete";
}
}