The System.Windows.Forms.StatusBar control can display a number of panels to provide information to the user of your application. For example, a panel could display the current time or the progress of a file download. Each panel displayed by the System.Windows.Forms.StatusBar control is an instance of the System.Windows.Forms.StatusBarPanel class. The StatusBar.Panels property enables you to obtain a reference to the collection of System.Windows.Forms.StatusBarPanel objects that are currently stored in the System.Windows.Forms.StatusBar control. With this reference, you can add panels, remove panels, access a specific panel within the collection, and obtain a count of the panels in the System.Windows.Forms.StatusBar control. For more information on the tasks that can be performed with the panel collection, see the System.Windows.Forms.StatusBar.StatusBarPanelCollection class reference topics.