Silverlight BusyIndicator is not a new thing in Silverlight. It was first added in Silverlight 3 Toolkit in November 2009 release (if I am not wrong). In this post I will describe about this for those who wants to know about it.

So, What is this Busy Indicator? Busy indicator is a tool which you can add in your Silverlight application to show a loading indication to your user while saving some sort of operation in database. Generally it is useful when you calling your WCF Service to store something in server or retrieving some data from server.


Let us go a bit depth to add it in our Silverlight application. First of all, we will create a new Silverlight application with some content inside it. In my example, I am using a Text & a Button inside a StackPanel. The XAML will look like this: