Did you noticed that I used the word ‘page’ and not ‘Window’? This is because there is only one window which display the pages. <\/p>\n

I though that the classic design data generation from blend will be used but to my great astonishment, the data displayed by default is ‘hand made’. There is one class named ‘SampleDataSource’ which is (as you can see in the previous snippet) created when you navigate to each page. In the constructor of this class, each item is created with a line of code.<\/p>\n

If you want to use your own collections and items, this is easy: create the data objects and put them inside the properties of the pages. As an example of what is done on every pages, the GroupedCollectionPage (displaying the collections), exposes a ‘Group’ property. The setter of this property will use the value as a source of a CollectionViewSource in the resources of the page:
\n[csharp]private IEnumerable<Object> _groups;
\npublic IEnumerable<Object> Groups
\n{
\n get { return this._groups; }<\/p>\n

set
\n {
\n this._groups = value;
\n GroupedCollectionViewSource.Source = value;
\n }
\n}
\n[\/csharp]<\/p>\n

And about the animations ?<\/h3>\n

As you can’t see there is a some animations when you navigate from one page to another. I won’t go in details here because this is pretty classic stuff done by using the Visual states so one one is going to be surprised here \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

EDIT:<\/strong> you may find interesting that the splitted mode of the app is also one Visual state.<\/p>\n

What more to say ?<\/h3>\n

This application template is quite complex for a start but it is greatly done.
\nI think that it can be difficult to use for beginners because there is a lot of things which are not as easy as it can seems: CollectionViewSource, resources resolutions, visual states, etc… But this is really nice for someone who knows these things \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The code, XAML or C# is well commented and there is explanation on every important lines which make it easy to understand.<\/p>\n

Finally, you can see that this is only a preview by the number of work around and temporary things you can find. The search windows finds 5 ‘temporary’ and 5 ‘workaround’ in this template for me !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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