We’ve seen how the Windows 10 AdaptiveTrigger can help you create a dynamic responsive UI based on the height or width of the device or screen. However, this trigger is limited to a specific value for each dimension, and offers no way to respond to changes in the relationship between them, such as to determine […]
Tag: XAML
In the previous post we looked at the basics of UI automation in Windows 10 apps using Blend to declare the XAML for Visual States. However, while last time we used event handlers in the code-behind of a page to trigger different states, this time we’ll see how to use the new AdaptiveTriggers in Windows […]
In our previous post we built a UniformGrid container for the ListView, resulting in an evenly-spaced, grid-like view for the main screen of Falafel2Go: This screen is actually made up of two such ListViews in a RelativePanel, allowing it to reposition the lists to support a landscape view, while still keeping the larger size for […]
This post describes the need for and implementation of a UniformGrid layout control that, when used with a ListView, allows the repeated elements to appropriately stretch to a consistent size to achieve a grid-like layout. Grid Layouts: Simple but Static In our last post we looked at the new RelativePanel control, which we used in the […]
Another new control in the Windows 10 Developer toolbox is the RelativePanel, a layout container which enables flexible positioning between the elements it contains. Today we’ll take a closer look at this control and how we used it to build the UI of the Falafel2Go app for Windows 10. RelativePanel Positioning Using the RelativePanel, each […]
Now that we have a simple but solid foundation for a complete Windows 10 app, let’s take a tour through some of the brand new controls available on the platform. Today we’ll look at the SplitView control, which enables you to quickly create a consistent, intuitive navigation UI that can automatically adjust to different screen […]
We have so far created a simple app with two pages, that uses simple Frame navigation to go back and forth. However, the app is still missing one crucial feature: state management. When an app is suspended for whatever reason (such as being minimized on the desktop or navigated away from on the phone), it […]
So far we’ve setup a few pages with some design-time data to help us layout the app, but running it still yields a blank screen with no interaction possible. We’ll remedy this by loading the sample data at runtime and adding a simple navigation implementation to allow us to go back and forth between the […]
In our last post, we installed the MVVM Light Toolkit and defined the basic framework for a simple two-page app with the MVVM pattern. With the ViewModels we created, we now have the containers for the data, but it would be even more helpful to pre-populate them with some sample data to aid in the designing of […]
This is post 1 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” Today is a big day in the history of Microsoft; the long-awaited Windows 10 release is finally here, bringing a whole new level of interactivity, security, productivity and entertainment. And with it comes a whole a whole new App Development model designed to […]