I'd like to show in one of the statusbar panels that there's an activity going on. Do you have a sample on how I can accomplish it using a generic progress bar  (one that doesn't show the percentage) in the statusbar? I'm just interested in displaying an animation that tells the user that there's an ongoing process. There's also this marqueeinfo property which I thought may be a good alternative for the progress bar if the latter is not possible  but I can't  make it to work (a sample snippet of this feature's usage will be appreciated).

As a last resort I tried changing the text color and background color of the panel but I only succeeded in doing the former. Is there any reason why UltraStatusBar1.Panels(0).Appearance.BackColor = Color.Yellow doesn't work?