Universal Windows® Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed

ProgressRing

Conceptually, ProgressRing is a version of ProgressBar that is always indeterminate and has a different default style. It uses the same five dancing dots as ProgressBar with IsIndeterminate=true, but they chase each other in a circle rather than moving in a horizontal line. ProgressRing doesn’t render anything by default, so to make it animate, you must set IsActive to true. (This is the analog to ProgressBar’s IsIndeterminate property.)

Figure 14.23 captures a single point in the animation, which doesn’t look much like a ring. When they are in motion, however, the ring is clear.

FIGURE 14.23 ProgressRing animates its five dots ...