The next control I'd like to introduce for the upcoming large WPF Studio 3.5 maintenance release is the AnimatedProgressBar control.

The AnimatedProgressBar control is essentially like a standard native WPF ProgressBar except that it has numerous improvements:

1. The AnimatedProgressBar supports multiple built-in themes and fully implements Actipro's themes management framework, allowing you to change themes on the fly at run-time.
2. AnimatedProgressBar supports three operation modes... the normal mode displays progress like normal, but warning (yellow-colored progress) and error (red-colored progress) modes can be entered during times when input is needed by the end user.  This makes it clearer when user input is required in the middle of long operations.
3. AnimatedProgressBar uses smooth animation to slide its indicator to the desired target value.  A normal progressbar "jumps" directly to new values.  The animated slide creates a more visually appealing effect.
4. An option to use a continuous indicator (instead of the default segmented one) in non-Aero themes.