An ASCII progress bar using a raw carriage return character

ascii-progress-bar.cs

Console.WriteLine("Progress bar demo using carriage returns");
const int STEPS = 40;
const string SPINNER = "|/-\\";
var random = new Random();
for (var i = 0; i <= STEPS; i++) {
	Console.Write("\r");
	Console.Write("Progress: ");
	Console.Write(SPINNER[i%4]);
	Console.Write(" [");
	Console.Write(String.Empty.PadRight(i, '▓').PadRight(STEPS, ' '));
	Console.Write("]");
	Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(random.Next(200)));
}
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("All done!");