Hello,

I consider myself a beginner/intermediate programmer in c#, but there's one thing that I've always had a problem with -- the progressbar object. I have yet to find a good tutorial on how to use the progressbar for different processes, other than a simple timer.

What I'm trying to do is have a progressbar similar to that on any browser, that shows the progress of the page download/request using the httpwebrequest object. I'm sure there are methods out there in the .NET framework that would give me the file size of a web file, but I'm not sure if that's the best approach. I am doing two different things where I'd like a progressbar. The main one that I'm having trouble with is a login request. I'd like the progressbar to show how long it's taking to login to the site and have the webbrowser object show the HTML data. Can anyone help me with this?

Some decent video or document tutorials would be appreciated, but sample code would be fantastic!

Thanks in advance!

Panuvin

The inherent problem with what you are looking to do is this: How does (or *can*) your process know how long it *should* take for a login to occur? Unless you establish some expectation of execution time, you can't show progress.

In contrast, if you were downloading a file, you would first get the size of the file, and then your process can establish how complete it is by knowing how many bytes it has downloaded relative to the total.

If you have a process that is made up of many steps, you could potentially show the progress by knowing how many steps total and how many steps completed so far.

-Peter