Progress bar similiar to Microsoft's

[PRPhx]

I have an application, in VB .Net, that moves large files (Approx. 1 GIG) from a network serever to my local pc. As the file(s) is/are very large, I would like a progress bar smiliar to the one MS uses to do a file copy.

In my application I use:
System.IO.File.Move(OldName, NewName) to actually move files. Is this the best way? Or is there a better way? During the file operation, there is no indication that anything is happening until the move has been completed.

Does anyone have any ideas, suggestions or sample code? Thanks in advance.

 

[ThatRickGuy]

If you are refering to the animation, I think it's just an animated gif.

The progress bar I beleive is just a standard progress bar.

The % complete and est time remaining are a little more entertaining however.

Using system.IO.file.move is the way I would recommend moving the file. In order to get the % and est time you need a few things. The initial size (on disk) of the original file and the start time of the copy. Then, on a timer tick, check the size of the file (on disk) of the destination file, then find the average "time per byte" for transfer, multiply by the original file size, and minus the T/B times the new file size.

-Rick

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[earthandfire]

These might be of interest:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/02/NETMatters/

http://www.codenewsgroups.net/group/microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion/topic2844.aspx

Hope this helps.