System Tray ProgressIndicator in Windows Phone 7.5 / Mango phone

This article explains how to work with the Progress Indicator in the System Tray to show the progress of async operation in a Windows Phone 7.5 . Mango phone.

Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) provides a Progress Indicator in the System Tray to show the progress of an async operation. 

The ProgressIndicator is a dependency object and can be data bound to the System Tray.

The ProgressIndicator class is defined as below:


 
Using ProgressIndicator
 
To use a ProgressIndicator, you first need to add the namespace:


 
And then create it like below:


 
On the async operation status you can set visibility to false:


 
Finally, you need to set it in the System Tray or Status Bar as below,


 
Putting it all together, the below listed source code will give you output as shown earlier in the post.
 
 using System.Windows.Media;
 using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;
 using Microsoft.Phone.Shell;
 namespace PhoneApp2
 {
     public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage
     {
         public MainPage()
         {
             InitializeComponent();
             SystemTray.SetIsVisible(this, true);
             SystemTray.SetOpacity(this, 0.5);
             SystemTray.SetBackgroundColor(this, Colors.Black);
             SystemTray.SetForegroundColor(this, Colors.Blue);
             ProgressIndicator progressIndicator = new ProgressIndicator();
             progressIndicator.IsVisible = true;
             progressIndicator.IsIndeterminate = true;           
             progressIndicator.Text = "Hey I am Progress Indicator";        
             SystemTray.SetProgressIndicator(this, progressIndicator); 
         }
     }
 }
 
In this way you can use the System Tray Progress Indicator. I hope this post was useful. Thanks for reading