Hi there, I am new to WPF, I have just learned how to customize the progressbar by using a control template. I made it so that the indicator part of the progressbar has a gradient effect. Now i actually want it to fade in as the value increase, I know that I can make use of the triggers on the value of the progress bar and set the opacity of the indicator, but i am not sure how that can be done. Also, I would like to have a box following the top of the indicator to indicate the value of the progessbar, my approach is to create another column from the grid, place a textbox inside, and then again using trigger change the coordinates of the box. But i am not sure how i can convert the value of the progressbar to the coordinates of the textbox. here is what i have so far

<UserControl
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d"
x:Class="IceControls.CivicProgressbar"
x:Name="UserControl" d:DesignHeight="492" Width="50">
<UserControl.Resources>

    <ControlTemplate x:Key="templateThermometer"
                     TargetType="{x:Type ProgressBar}">

        <ControlTemplate.Resources>
            <LinearGradientBrush x:Key="brushStem" 
                                 StartPoint="0 0" EndPoint="7 0">
				<LinearGradientBrush.Transform>
					<RotateTransform  Angle="90"></RotateTransform>
				</LinearGradientBrush.Transform>
                <GradientStop Offset="0" Color="white" />
				<GradientStop Offset="1" Color="transparent" />
            </LinearGradientBrush>

        </ControlTemplate.Resources>
		
      
        <Grid>
            <Grid.RowDefinitions>
                <RowDefinition Height="\*" />
            </Grid.RowDefinitions>

          
            <Grid Grid.Row="0">
                <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
					<ColumnDefinition Width="100\*" />
                </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

              
                <Border Grid.Column="0" BorderBrush="Gray" 
                        BorderThickness="1 1 1 1"
                        CornerRadius="6 6 0 0" >

hmm i dont understand?

Hi guys, I am really new to WPF. I unerstand the concept of using Templates to create customization of a control, and i have attempted to change the visual behaviour of the Progressbar control and now hitting a brick wall. So there are 3 things i would like to do: 1) Remove the 3d shiny part of the control - i dont like the 3d ness I used control template to modify the foreground, i sucessfully killed the 3d shininesss, but moving part is expanding itself starting at the center point of the entire progress bar, and that it only expends to 100 pixels wide. this is because i set te Width=Value the foreground rectrangle's width attribute. How do i make it so that when the value = 100, the progressbar is fully filled?

			<Rectangle Fill="{TemplateBinding Foreground}"
			Height="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}, Path=Width}"
			Width="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}, Path=Value}" 
			Margin="0,0" ></Rectangle>

2. Have a textbox following the top of the moving part to indicate a value - I have no idea how to do this 3) Make the whole control an arc, so that it looks like a fuel gauge - I know i can transform it,skew, size it whatever, but not warp it. thx alot guys

How can i do that? Do you have any example?

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Is that the only way to do this? I know that reflection is rather expensive.

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Type _rhType = Type.GetType(rhType);
Type _entityType = Type.GetType(entityType);
RecordHistoryService<_rhType, _entityType> recordHistory;

thx for your help :D

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