Is it possible to change the busy animation in the Busyindicator of Extended WPF Toolkit?

Question

Is it possible to change the busy animation in the Busyindicator of Extended WPF Toolkit? In particular, I would like to change it to a .gif animation.

Answer 1

Yes, of course. You can define your own custom content (documentation).

Busy indicator custom content example:

 <xctk:BusyIndicator IsBusy="True" DisplayAfter="0">
       <xctk:BusyIndicator.BusyContentTemplate>
            <DataTemplate>
                 <StackPanel Margin="4">
                          <TextBlock Text="Downloading Email" FontWeight="Bold" HorizontalAlignment="Center"/>
                           <StackPanel Margin="4">
                               <TextBlock Text="Downloading message 4/10..."/>
                               <ProgressBar Value="40" Height="15"/>
                           </StackPanel>
                           <Grid>
                               <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                   <ColumnDefinition/>
                                   <ColumnDefinition/>
                               </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                               <Button Grid.Column="0" Content="Pause" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0 0 2 0"/>
                               <Button Grid.Column="1" Content="Cancel" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="2 0 0 0"/>
                           </Grid>
                  </StackPanel>
            </DataTemplate>
       </xctk:BusyIndicator.BusyContentTemplate>
       <xctk:BusyIndicator.OverlayStyle>
                  <Style TargetType="Rectangle">
                        <Setter Property="Fill" Value="#ffffeeee"/>
                  </Style>
       </xctk:BusyIndicator.OverlayStyle>
       <xctk:BusyIndicator.ProgressBarStyle>
                   <Style TargetType="ProgressBar">
                            <Setter Property="Visibility" Value="Collapsed"/>
                   </Style>
       </xctk:BusyIndicator.ProgressBarStyle>
       <ContentControl Style="{StaticResource SampleContent}"/>
</xctk:BusyIndicator>

To display animated GIF images in WPF you can use WPF Animated GIF.

Busy indicator with animated GIF:

<xctk:BusyIndicator IsBusy="True" DisplayAfter="0">
    <xctk:BusyIndicator.BusyContentTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <StackPanel Margin="5">                   
                <Image gif:ImageBehavior.AnimatedSource="loading.gif" Width="100" Height="100" />
            </StackPanel>
        </DataTemplate>
    </xctk:BusyIndicator.BusyContentTemplate>
    <xctk:BusyIndicator.OverlayStyle>
        <Style TargetType="Rectangle">
            <Setter Property="Fill" Value="#ffffeeee"/>
        </Style>
    </xctk:BusyIndicator.OverlayStyle>
    <xctk:BusyIndicator.ProgressBarStyle>
        <Style TargetType="ProgressBar">
            <Setter Property="Visibility" Value="Collapsed"/>
        </Style>
    </xctk:BusyIndicator.ProgressBarStyle>
    <ContentControl />
</xctk:BusyIndicator>