How to do it...

Once you create the WPF project, open the MainWindow.xaml page and follow these steps to add the StatusBar control to the window:

1. Inside the Grid panel, add a StatusBar tag and set its Height to 26 and VerticalAlignment to Bottom.

2. Now change its items panel template to host a Grid with five columns (we will discuss more about grid columns in the next chapter), as shown here:

<StatusBar.ItemsPanel> 
    <ItemsPanelTemplate> 
        <Grid> 
            <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> 
                <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> 
                <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> 
                <ColumnDefinition Width="*" /> 
                <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> 
                <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> 
            </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> 
        </Grid> 
    </ItemsPanelTemplate> 
</StatusBar.ItemsPanel> 

3. Now, inside...