Ok, so I am trying to build out an UI where I use the <Slider> UX control to indicate passing time (this is for the Dimecasts.net WP7 application).  But the oddest thing happened, when I put the slider control onto my page it did not show up.  I thought maybe I was doing something wrong so I dropped the control onto a sample application and everything worked just fine... Odd

Here is the Xaml that I tried the first time around.

If you look towards the bottom of the Xaml you will see the Slider control.  This should work but it does not..odd.  Now when I put this into my sample application it worked just fine.  After looking at the code for a minute it dawned on me in my sample app I did not have the Slider in a grid.  So I put it into a grid and sure enough it stopped being visible again.  I did a bit of searching on bing and google but i could not find an answer.  So I turned to Twitter and sure enough I got a suggestion from @sirleamont (see below)

After the suggestion from @sirleamont I created the Xaml as below and surprise it worked :)

The only change I made is to wrap the Slider control inside a StackPanel.  Something still seems odd here, but hey it works.  If anyone knows exactly why this is the case please let me know.

Till next time,