TargetType not found

[David]

Hello,

I was playing around with the BusyIndicator control and ran into this problem. I just pasted the sample code from here: http://www.telerik.com/help/windows-phone/radbusyindicator-features-customanimations.html
and ran into an error. Type 'telerikPrimitivesBusyIndicator:BusyIndicatorAnimation' was not found. The error is at this line:

<Style x:Key="DefaultIndicatorAnimation"
TargetType="telerikPrimitivesBusyIndicator:BusyIndicatorAnimation">

I am a new developer so i dont understand what "TargetType" even does?

Thanks!
David

[Todor]

Hi David,

Thank you for your interest in RadBusyIndicator.

The TargetType property of Style defines the type for which the style is intended. What you need to do is, to add an xmlns statement in the root tag mapping the prefix telerikPrimitivesBusyIndicator to the CLR namespace Telerik.Windows.Controls.BusyIndicator in the assembly Telerik.Windows.Controls.Primitives. It looks like this:

xmlns:telerikPrimitivesBusyIndicator="clr-namespace:Telerik.Windows.Controls.BusyIndicator;assembly=Telerik.Windows.Controls.Primitives"

You are free to choose a different prefix, just make sure it is the same as the one used for the TargetType. And then you set the style to the IndicatorAnimationStyle property of RadBusyIndicator.
I hope this information is useful. Let me know if need additional assistance.

Kind regards,
Todor
the Telerik team