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WPF C# - TextBlock inside custom ProgressBar not showing [duplicate]

This may be a no-brainer for the WPF cognoscenti, but I'd like to know if there's a simple way to put text on the WPF ProgressBar. To me, an empty progress bar looks naked. That's screen real estate that could carry a message about what is in progress, or even just add numbers to the representation. Now, WPF is all about containers and extensions and I'm slowly wrapping my mind around that, but since I don't see a "Text" or "Content" property, I'm thinking I'm going to have to add something to the container that is my progress bar. Is there a technique or two out there that is more natural than my original WinForms impulses will be? What's the best, most WPF-natural way to add text to that progress bar?

Both of the prior responses (creating a new CustomControl or an Adorner) are better practices, but if you just want quick and dirty (or to understand visually how to do it) then this code would work:
<Grid Width="300" Height="50">
<ProgressBar Value="50" />
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
My Text
</TextBlock>
</Grid>
Just keep in mind that the z-index is such that the last item listed will be on top.
Also, if you don't have Kaxaml yet, be sure to pick it up - it is great for playing with XAML when you're trying to figure things out.

This can be very simple (unless there are alot of ways getting this to work).
You could use Style to get this done or you just overlay a TextBlock and a ProgressBar.
I personally use this to show the percentage of the progress when waiting for completion.
To keep it very simple I only wanted to have one Binding only,
so I attached the TextBock.Text to the ProgressBar.Value.
Then just copy the Code to get it done.
<Grid>
<ProgressBar Minimum="0"
Maximum="100"
Value="{Binding InsertBindingHere}"
Name="pbStatus" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ElementName=pbStatus, Path=Value, StringFormat={}{0:0}%}"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Center" />
</Grid>
Here is how this could look like:
Check out WPF Tutorial for the full post.

If you are needing to have a reusable method for adding text, you can create a new Style/ControlTemplate that has an additional TextBlock to display the text. You can hijack the TextSearch.Text attached property to set the text on a progress bar.
If it doesn't need to be reusable, simply put the progress bar in a Grid and add a TextBlock to the grid. Since WPF can compose elements together, this will work nicely.
If you want, you can create a UserControl that exposes the ProgressBar and TextBlock as public properties, so it would be less work than creating a custom ControlTemplate.

You could use an Adorner to display text over top of it.
See MSDN article on Adorners
You would create a class that inherits from the Adorner class. Override the OnRender method to draw the text that you want. If you want you could create a dependency property for your custom Adorner that contains the text that you want to display. Then use the example in the link I mentioned to add this Adorner to your progress bar's adorner layer.

ProgressBar with Text and Binding from 2 Properties ( Value/Maximum value ):
<Grid>
<ProgressBar Name="pbUsrLvl"
Minimum="1"
Maximum="99"
Value="59"
Margin="5"
Height="24" Foreground="#FF62FF7F"/>
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<TextBlock.Text>
<MultiBinding StringFormat="{}UserLvl:{0}/{1}">
<Binding Path="Value" ElementName="pbUsrLvl" />
<Binding Path="Maximum" ElementName="pbUsrLvl" />
</MultiBinding>
</TextBlock.Text>
</TextBlock>
</Grid>
Rezult:
The same but with % of progress :
<Grid>
<ProgressBar Name="pbLifePassed"
Minimum="0"
Value="59"
Maximum="100"
Margin="5" Height="24" Foreground="#FF62FF7F"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ElementName=pbLifePassed, Path=Value, StringFormat={}{0:0}%}"
HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
</Grid>

Right click ProgressBar, and click Edit Template > Edit a Copy.
Then put the TextBlock as shown below just above the closing tag of Grid in the Style generated by VS.
<Border BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" CornerRadius="2"/>
<TextBlock Background="Transparent" Text="work in progress" Foreground="Black" TextAlignment="Center"/>
</Grid>
<ControlTemplate.Triggers>

This is based on the given answers.
Since I´m using MahApps Metro, I ended up with this:
<Grid>
<metro:MetroProgressBar x:Name="pbar" Value="50" Height="20"></metro:MetroProgressBar>
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Text="{Binding ElementName=pbar, Path=Value, StringFormat={}{0:0}%}"></TextBlock>
</Grid>
If you want to use the normal bar with Metro Style:
<Grid>
<ProgressBar x:Name="pbar" Value="50" Height="20" Style="{StaticResource MetroProgressBar}"></ProgressBar>
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Text="{Binding ElementName=pbar, Path=Value, StringFormat={}{0:0}%}"></TextBlock>
</Grid>
Same without Style:
<Grid>
<ProgressBar x:Name="pbar" Value="60" Height="20" Style="{x:Null}"></ProgressBar>
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Text="{Binding ElementName=pbar, Path=Value, StringFormat={}{0:0}%}"></TextBlock>
</Grid>
What is Happening?
You have your progressbar and simply just lay text over it.
So you just use your progressbar as you would.
Put the progressbar in a grid and lay an textblock in it.
Then you can text as you wish or grab the current percenteage wich is the value from the progressbar.

How to Fill SolidColorBrush/Ellipse [duplicate]

I am trying to create this in WPF (I realize I could just use an image, but I am trying to learn WPF):
(source)
This is what I have so far but it isn't producing the desired result, in that, the textbox seems completely hide the ellipse whereas it should simply have a transparent background:
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="144,207,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="TextBlock" VerticalAlignment="Top"/>
<Ellipse HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="52" Margin="142,189,0,0" Stroke="Black" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="52"/>
</StackPanel>

You can put things like this in a viewbox to make scaling easier, something like this. You'll need to remove the stack panel, it's going to stack items one on top of the other which isn't what you're after here. I used a grid in this case.
<Viewbox Width="100" Height="100">
<Grid Width="20" Height="20">
<Ellipse Stroke="Black"/>
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" Text="i" TextAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
</Grid>
</Viewbox>

Or you can use the unicode character: ⓘ
code 0x24D8
<TextBlock Text="ⓘ" FontSize="52" />

So a stackpanel will place the first item at the top, the second just below it, third below the second, and so forth. What you could do is use a Canvas or a Grid. Like the stackpanel, they are "Content Controls" and support placing multiple objects inside of them like you have done with the stackpanel.
So a really quick way to do what you're trying to accomplish would be:
<Grid >
<Ellipse HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="52" Stroke="Black" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="52"/>
<TextBlock Text="i" FontSize="52" Margin="18,-13,-6,13" />
</Grid>

You can do it using a border and a TextBlock. A square border will become a circle if you make its CornerRadius equals half its Width (or Height):
<Border Width="100" Height="100" CornerRadius="50" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="2">
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center"
FontSize="50" Foreground="Blue" >i</TextBlock>
</Border>

Don't use a StackPanel for this, the purpose of it is to stack things, not show them overlapped, you're using the wrong tool for that. Use a Grid, it's far more suited for what you're trying to do.
To have a transparent background, you have to either set the TextBlock's Background property to Transparent, or set a null background.
Background={x:Null}

How to add a image in Pivot header similar to page controller of iOS in Windows 10?

I am currently working with Windows 10 and Pivot control. I am aware that we can customize the header template by adding an Image or customizing the TextBlock. I know how to customize basic template like following
<Pivot.HeaderTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}"
FontSize="22"/>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</Pivot.HeaderTemplate>
This works perfectly fine for basic purpose but I want to achieve an output similar to the following screenshot. Add ellipse for each header and it should at the center of the page.
Can someone suggest whether this is possible or not?
Update
I added a StackPanel like below.
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Center" Grid.Row="1" Orientation="Horizontal">
<Ellipse Fill="Cyan"
Height="10"
Width="10"
Margin="10,0"/>
<Ellipse Fill="Gainsboro"
Height="10"
Width="10"
Margin="10,0"/>
<Ellipse Fill="Gainsboro"
Height="10"
Width="10"
Margin="10,0"/>
</StackPanel>
Now how to assign PivotHeaderForegroundSelectedBrush and PivotHeaderForegroundUnselectedBrush to ellipses?

For designing ellipses on center of page.
Option 1
You can accomplish is by having binding a margin property. This margin property will need to be updated for each resize.
Option2
Else specify a Stackpanel with Orientation as Horizontal, Center aligned and containing ellipses which are updated as soon as Pivot selection changes. You can find a similar control being created by Jerry Nixon Pagination
As for Ellipses Color change you can Create a template for different state, use a trigger or even override current Pivot header templates
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="PivotHeaderForegroundSelectedBrush" Color="Blue" />
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="PivotHeaderForegroundUnselectedBrush" Color="White" />

WPF How to make a Viewbox aware of its available space from within a StackPanel

I have a custom WPF control based on Soroosh Davaee’s ImageButton example at http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/773386/WPF-ImageButton. The custom control combines an Image and TextBlock in a horizontal StackPanel within a Button. (BTW, to get Soroosh’s example to run, I had to edit the solution properties so that “SampleView” is the startup project rather than “ExtendedButton” being the startup project.)
I want the text in the TextBlock to automatically shrink if necessary to avoid clipping at the right edge if the text is too long to fit naturally in the button. For example, if I edit Soroosh's MainWindow.xaml to make the button text too long to fit...
...
<EB:ImageButton Width="100" Height="30" Content="TextTooLongToFitInTheButton" Grid.Row="2"
...
<EB:ImageButton Width="100" Height="30" Content="TextTooLongToFitInTheButton" Grid.Row="2"
...
...the result is the following buttons with clipped text:
In researching this, it seems the simplest way to auto-shrink the content of a TextBlock is to wrap it within a Viewbox:
<Viewbox StretchDirection="DownOnly" Stretch="Fill">
<TextBlock ... />
</Viewbox>
DownOnly apparently prevents the Viewbox from enlarging the text to fill the space, and Fill (as opposed to Uniform) seems to tell it to stretch (shrink) only the dimension that needs to shrink (i.e. the horizontal dimension in my case).
In Soroosh's example Generic.xaml file, I wrapped the TextBlock in such a Viewbox:
<Button >
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Image Margin="2 0"
Source="{TemplateBinding Image}"
Width="{TemplateBinding ImageWidth}"
Height="{TemplateBinding ImageHeight}"
Visibility="{TemplateBinding Image,Converter={StaticResource VisibilityConvertor}}"
VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
I added--> <Viewbox StretchDirection="DownOnly" Stretch="Fill">
<TextBlock Text="{TemplateBinding Content}"
VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
I added--> </Viewbox>
</StackPanel>
</Button>
This produced exactly the same clipped button text. Just experimenting, I tried forcing the Viewbox to have a fixed width...
<Viewbox StretchDirection="DownOnly" Stretch="Fill" Width="60">
...which produced this:
...which shows the capability of the Viewbox, if only it could somehow know its available width when it's inside the StackPanel.
I did note that if I wrap the Viewbox around the whole StackPanel, it successfully auto-shrinks the entire content of the StackPanel:
<Button >
<Viewbox StretchDirection="DownOnly" Stretch="Fill" Width="60">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Image Margin="2 0"
Source="{TemplateBinding Image}"
Width="{TemplateBinding ImageWidth}"
Height="{TemplateBinding ImageHeight}"
Visibility="{TemplateBinding Image,Converter={StaticResource VisibilityConvertor}}"
VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="{TemplateBinding Content}"
VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
</StackPanel>
</Viewbox>
</Button>
...which produces very nearly what I want:
...but both the image and text are shrunk, and I want only the text shrunk.
How can I make the Viewbox, wrapping only the TextBox, know its available width (and height, I suppose) from within a cell of the StackPanel?

This is a common problem. The solution is simply to not use a StackPanel to do any kind of layout that requires re-sizing of child controls. It's simply not the correct Panel for the job. Instead, try using a Grid panel, which will resize its child controls. The StackPanel control is really only good for the most basic of layout duties... try anything more adventurous and you'll find yourself getting these issues.
One other alternative is to use the TextBlock.TextTrimming Property to trim the text instead... you could put the full text into a ToolTip too.

Binding text with viewbox produces unwanted behaviour

The appeareance of my button is perfect if I define what the text is.
Working Image
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<ContentControl ContentTemplate="{StaticResource Icons.Person}" Style="{StaticResource Icon}"/>
<TextBlock Text="PERSONS"/>
</StackPanel>
I want to set the text to be Binding to a variable but this Overlaps the image.
Appearance after Bindings
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<ContentControl ContentTemplate="{StaticResource Icons.Person}" Style="{StaticResource Icon}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Persons"/>
</StackPanel>
Icon.xaml
<DataTemplate x:Key="Icons.Person">
<Viewbox>
<Path ......./>
</Viewbox>
</DataTemplate>
Path code is huge, if it's needed I'll upload it.
What I've tried is changing the Datatemplate to be only a ViewBox with a key, and change content control to be a stackpanel with a viewbox within it and the text box. Same effect would happen. May I ask how to fix this or what's an alternative to show my datatemplate/viewbox with a binding text field