# Step 3: Using the Rating control at Run Time

## Content



In the last step, you customized the appearance of the Rating control by setting some of its properties at design time. In this step, you run your application to see the control's appearance and working.

1.  Press **F5** to build your application. The output window looks similar to the following image.
    
    ![Rating Appearance](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/babf1807-69aa-4d8a-96b6-d6c6d9325368/images/image26.png)
    
2.  Notice that the control displays a 2-star rating as per the customization done in **Step 2**.
3.  The color of the stars appearing in the Rating control turns **Green** on hovering over them at runtime as follows.
    
    ![Rating Appearance](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/babf1807-69aa-4d8a-96b6-d6c6d9325368/images/image27.png)
    
4.  You can give 0.5 star ratings as well since the [RatingPrecision](/componentone/api/wpf/online-extended/dotnet-framework-api/C1.WPF.Extended.4.6.2/C1.WPF.Extended.C1Rating.RatingPrecision.html) property is set to **Half.**
    
    ![Rating Appearance](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/babf1807-69aa-4d8a-96b6-d6c6d9325368/images/image_28.png)
    

With this, you have completed all the steps of Quick Start section.

## See Also

[Features](/componentone/docs/wpf/online-extended/Rating/Features)