windows 8 modal progress dialogue (like messagebox with own content and buttons...)

Question

I would like to start async operation in c# metro application and I would like to show modal dialogue with ProgressRing.

Is there any easy way howto do it? Or any best practises howto do this?

Answer 1

The modal dialog box class in WinRT is MessageDialog. Here are the best practices for using dialogs.

There is a code sample for message dialogs at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Message-dialog-sample-00c928f5.