Let you have a moving progressbar in a C# console app.

ProgressBar.cs

public class ProgressBar : IDisposable, IProgress<double>
{
	private const int blockCount = 10;
	private readonly TimeSpan animationInterval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1.0 / 8);
	private const string animation = @"|/-\";

	private readonly Timer timer;

	private double currentProgress = 0;
	private string currentText = string.Empty;
	private bool disposed = false;
	private int animationIndex = 0;

	public ProgressBar()
	{
		timer = new Timer(TimerHandler);

		// A progress bar is only for temporary display in a console window.
		// If the console output is redirected to a file, draw nothing.
		// Otherwise, we'll end up with a lot of garbage in the target file.
		if (!Console.IsOutputRedirected)
		{
			ResetTimer();
		}
	}

	public void Report(double value)
	{
		// Make sure value is in [0..1] range
		value = Math.Max(0, Math.Min(1, value));
		Interlocked.Exchange(ref currentProgress, value);
	}

	private void TimerHandler(object state)
	{
		lock (timer)
		{
			if (disposed) return;

			int progressBlockCount = (int)(currentProgress * blockCount);
			int percent = (int)(currentProgress * 100);
			string text = string.Format("[{0}{1}] {2,3}% {3}",
				new string('#', progressBlockCount), new string('-', blockCount - progressBlockCount),
				percent,
				animation[animationIndex++ % animation.Length]);
			UpdateText(text);

			ResetTimer();
		}
	}

	private void UpdateText(string text)
	{
		// Get length of common portion
		int commonPrefixLength = 0;
		int commonLength = Math.Min(currentText.Length, text.Length);
		while (commonPrefixLength < commonLength && text[commonPrefixLength] == currentText[commonPrefixLength])
		{
			commonPrefixLength++;
		}

		// Backtrack to the first differing character
		StringBuilder outputBuilder = new StringBuilder();
		outputBuilder.Append('\b', currentText.Length - commonPrefixLength);

		// Output new suffix
		outputBuilder.Append(text.Substring(commonPrefixLength));

		// If the new text is shorter than the old one: delete overlapping characters
		int overlapCount = currentText.Length - text.Length;
		if (overlapCount > 0)
		{
			outputBuilder.Append(' ', overlapCount);
			outputBuilder.Append('\b', overlapCount);
		}

		Console.Write(outputBuilder);
		currentText = text;
	}

	private void ResetTimer()
	{
		timer.Change(animationInterval, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(-1));
	}

	public void Dispose()
	{
		lock (timer)
		{
			disposed = true;
			UpdateText(string.Empty);
		}
	}

}