Splash screen with progress bar Windows Phone not displaying - windows-phone-8

I have create a usercontrol for a splash screen to display when my app starts see code below. But the problem is that the text and prograss bar I want display on top of it doesn't display. I can't figure out what I've done wrong here? It's probablly something simple!
code:
<UserControl
x:Class="ContosoSocial.SplashScreenPage"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignHeight="800" d:DesignWidth="480"
FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"
FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"
Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}">
<!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" >
<Image Stretch="Fill" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="480" Source="SplashScreenImage.jpg"></Image>
<TextBox HorizontalAlignment="Left"
TextAlignment="Center"
Height="60"
Margin="14,630,0,0"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
Text="App & Database..."
VerticalAlignment="Top"
Width="456"
AcceptsReturn="True"
FontSize="16"
BorderBrush="{x:Null}"
Background="{x:Null}"
Foreground="White"
SelectionBackground="{x:Null}"
SelectionForeground="{x:Null}"/>
<ProgressBar HorizontalAlignment="Left"
Height="10"
Margin="10,680,0,0"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
Width="460"
IsIndeterminate="True"
Foreground="White"/>
<ProgressBar HorizontalAlignment="Left"
Height="10"
Margin="10,695,0,0"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
Width="460"
FlowDirection="RightToLeft"
Foreground="White"
IsIndeterminate="True"/>
<!--TitlePanel contains the name of the application and page title-->
</Grid>
The control run fine in Visual Studio window, I can see the text and progress bars running on top on the splash screen image.

Your code is working perfectly. Just add
Background="{StaticResource PhoneChromeBrush}"
in your LayoutRoot Grid since you text seems to be white in color. You can refer the source code which I tried.

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