In WinForms you could set a progress bar to loop endlessly to indicate that you don't know how long it will take. How would I do that in WPF?
<ProgressBar IsIndeterminate="True" />
I personally like the approach Visual Studio 2010 takes. They use an animation of a small, looping series of dots (with varying intensity). They just animate the dots circling in the center of the window in question.
In WPF, this is trivial - just animate a rotation of a small drawing of a circle of dots with the opacity set correctly up front.
I find it very intuitive, small, and unintrusive.
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