Hi there, I am back with a new post on wonderful products by Telerik. Since
Nokia and Microsoft deal Windows Phone 7 and to be precise Mango Phone
development is a buzz. As a developer all we want to create killer apps for
windows phone.
RadControls for windows phone 7 enables us to create beautiful and powerful
application.
Full list of
RadControls are as below,
- Animation Framework
- Application Frame
- Busy Indicator
- Bullet Graph
- Calendar
- Chart
- DataBoudListBox
- DatePicker
- DateSelector
- DockPanel
- Gauge
- JumpList
- LayoutTransform
- ListPicker
- LoopingList
- MessageBox
- NumericupDown
- PickerBox
- TimePicker
- TimeSelector
- TransitionSelector
- UniformGrid
- Window
- WrapPanel
Installation steps
After downloading you can install MSI as below, you will be prompted with below
screens.
After successful installation you will have a new project template RadControls
Windows Phone Application installed in Silverlight for Windows Phone tab.
Working with Busy Indicator
To work with Busy Indicator, very first you need to add below references in the
project. You will find below reference in Extension tab.
Next on XAML page add namespace as below,
There are five properties worth discussing about Busy Indicator
When you run the application with busy indicator, you should get output as
below,
Obviously you can have your own business logic to either show or collapse busy
indicator. I hope this control would be useful to your application. Thanks for
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