Using XAML StatusBar in WPF

XAML StatusBar represents a status bar. A StatusBar is a horizontal window that usually sits at the bottom of a window to display various kinds of status information of an application. This tutorial shows you how to use a StatusBar in WPF.

Introduction

The StatusBar element in XAML represents a WPF StatusBar control.

<StatusBar></StatusBar>

The Width and Height properties represent the width and the height of a StatusBar. The Name property represents the name of the control that is a unique identifier of a control.

The following code snippet creates a StatusBar control and set its content to some text.

<StatusBar Name="McSBar" Height="30" VerticalAlignment="Bottom"
           Background="LightBlue" >
    This is a status bar
</StatusBar>

The output looks as in Figure 1.


                                                   Figure 1

Creating a StatusBar Dynamically

The StatusBar class in WPF represents a StatusBar control. This class is defined in using the System.Windows.Controls.Primitives namespace. Before you use this class, be sure to import this namespace.

You may add any number of controls to a StatusBar control. For example, if you add images, a TextBox, TextBlock and/or other controls and place that StatusBar on a Window. The following code snippet creates a StatusBar at run-time and adds a TextBox to it.

private void CreateDynamicStatusBar()
{
    StatusBar sBar = new StatusBar();
    sBar.Height = 30;
    sBar.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.LightBlue);

    TextBox tb = new TextBox();
    tb.Text = "This is a status bar";
    sBar.Items.Add(tb);
    LayoutRoot.Children.Add(sBar);
}

Summary

In this article, I discussed how to create and use a StatusBar control available in WPF.