Use Windows Native Copy and Move Progress Bar from C# Windows Form App

Question

I was wondering if we could give the open source community this logic, using which the C# Windows Form App Developers can integrate the copy and move native window box like this -

Can we even do this? Because whatever threads I have came across while searching for this provide their own Progress Bar in Windows App.

Answer 1

What comes unnatural is that you have to add a reference to the assembly Microsoft.VisualBasic in your C# project.

And then add the correct namespace at the top of your .cs file:

using Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO;

Here is the "C#" code (that really is nothing more the a call to the correct method) to invoke FileSystem.CopyDirectory

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    FileSystem.CopyDirectory(
        @"c:\src",
        @"c:\dst",
        UIOption.AllDialogs,
        UICancelOption.DoNothing);
}

And that will generate the desired eye candy for you with having to deal with any Progressbar handling on your own.