Windows phone 8 Performance progressbar

Question

Do i need to use performance progressbar in windows phone 8. In my windows phone 7/7.5 application i was used the progressbar shipped with the toolkit(performance progressbar). Is it necessary to use the same in windows phone 8 or simple progress bar is sufficient?

Answer 1

The WP8 SDK contains the improved progress bar now. So use this one only. The TK version in not working properly anymore on WP8.

See changes for the SDK here, including a sentence about the progress bar: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj206940%28v=vs.105%29.aspx

See a discussion about that topic here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/wpdevelop/thread/dd457734-a11a-48e2-8443-ba8f5e3f67ac