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Microsoft Blend: Creating A Custom Progress Bar

Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio (formerly Microsoft Expression Blend) is a user interface design tool developed and sold by Microsoft for creating graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications.

We are going to create something like the following screenshot:

https://ayyazahmadtarar.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/rotator4.gif?w=372&h=169

**Step 1: **Create a new black UWP (Universal windows platform) project and open the Mainpage.xaml in blend as in the following image.

https://ayyazahmadtarar.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/capture.png?w=736

Your app will open in Blend.

Step 2: Create two circles or any image you want like the following screenshot:

https://ayyazahmadtarar.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/rotator.gif?w=736

Step 3: Create a new story board and set their initial position, where you want to place them on screen. As you set them you will see https://ayyazahmadtarar.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/capture1.png?w=17&h=24 appears in storyboard. Drag the time pointer to 1 sec and record the movement.

https://ayyazahmadtarar.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/rotator2.gif?w=682&h=322

Step 4: This is an optional step and you can also add action of this animation to your controller. Just drag the button from toolbox.

https://ayyazahmadtarar.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/rotator3.gif?w=736

Run the application and you will get the following:

https://ayyazahmadtarar.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/rotator4.gif?w=372&h=169