Wow! What a week! PDC, the Silverlight 4 Beta, and now the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit! There’s been a ton of great news and exciting announcements, and now I can share with you that the Activity control, first blogged here, is now a part of the Silverlight Toolkit!
Awesome! What does that mean for the Activity control?
During this transition, the Activity control underwent a few changes (thanks to my colleagues working on the Toolkit – David Anson and Jeff Wilcox) to make it more generally palatable:
- The control has been renamed from “Activity” to “BusyIndicator” in order to avoid confusion with the concept of an Activity (sounds a lot like “Task”)
- Similarly, “IsActive” is now “IsBusy”, and the visual states have been renamed appropriately as well.
- AutoBind and related properties have been removed once and for all. They were a performance hog in the original versions, and they really only hit a very, very narrow scenario. Instead, bind to a property that represents your busyness.
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