Application Bar for Windows Phone
March 22, 2012
You can use the Windows Phone SDK to quickly and easily add an Application Bar to your application. The Application Bar is a row of icon buttons along the bottom of the phone’s screen that provide users with quick access to an application’s most common tasks. The following illustration shows an example of an Application Bar.
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Describes the user interface, development process, properties, and best practices of the Application Bar. |
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Describes the best practices for the Application Bar icon button and lists the steps for adding icon button images to your Windows Phone application. |
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Lists the steps and contains the code to create an Application Bar for your Windows Phone application in XAML. |
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Lists the steps and contains the code to create an Application Bar for your Windows Phone application in C# or Visual Basic. |
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How to: Change Icon Buttons and Menu Items Dynamically for Windows Phone |
Lists the steps and contains the code to change the icon buttons and menu items on your Application Bar dynamically at run time. |
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How to: Reuse an Application Bar on Multiple Pages in Your Windows Phone Application |
Lists the steps and contains the code to create a global Application Bar that you can access from any page in your application. |
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How to: Use Different Application Bars in a Single Pivot Control in Your Windows Phone Application |
Lists the steps and contains the code to change the Application Bar when the user swipes among pivot “pages.” |
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Walkthrough: Creating an Application Bar Test Application for Windows Phone |
Walks you through the procedures to build an application that tests the different Application Bar properties and how they interact with each other. |
