loading-animation

Ajax Style Loading Animation in Silverlight

I am building a Silverlight application around the new Navigation framework. Due to the nature of the application, there will be quite a bit of waiting around. To that end, I'd like to add an Ajax-style loading animation to all my navigation pages. In other words, while I go and get the data for any of the pages, I want to be showing...

Change cursor to loading animation

Hey, I've got a few loading bars that appear during any postbacks. How can I use CSS to have the cursor change into a custom loading animation? In examples I've come across, I can only turn the cursor into other preset images (such as an hourglass). Is it possible for me to use a custom gif as the cursor? Thanks ...

Silverlight standard loading animation does not get displayed.

Can anybody enlighten me as to how the standard Silverlight loading animations (the swirling blue balls) are embedded in a Silverlight application and how they work? I currently don't see it although loading the xap takes long enough for the loading animation to be displayed. The problem is that I'm creating a xap dynamically and trying...