- Fitting It In
- Task List
- The Development Process in a Nutshell
- Say Hello
- Create a New Project
- Run in the Simulator
- Set Some XAML Properties
- Change the XAML
- Use the Property Window
- Add a Contract
- Wire up the Flyout
- Add a Live Tile
- Certify your App
- Say What?
- Visual Studio Templates
- Common Files
- Visual Studio 2013 Express
- Using the Simulator
- The XAML Designer
- Blend integration
- Review
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Set Some XAML Properties
Now that we’ve seen what Visual Studio gives us to start with, let’s make some changes.
Stop the Application
You can either click the red(ish) stop button on the Visual Studio toolbar or press Ctrl+F5. (Notice that the Simulator doesn’t close. If you check, you’ll see that it’s displaying your Start Screen. You can close it from the toolbar, if you wish.)
Open Itemspage.xaml in the Designer
Just double-click it in the Solution Explorer (be sure you open ItemsPage.xaml, not ItemsPage.xaml.cs or ItemsPage.xaml.vb). You can close App.xaml.cs if you wish (but you don’t need to).
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There are two ways to set the properties of your XAML widgets in Visual Studio XAML designer: by typing in the XAML directly or by setting properties in the properties window. We’ll be exploring XAML in detail in the next chapter, but here’s a taste:
- NAVIGATE TO THE TEXTBLOCK NAMED PAGETITLE
You can either just scroll through the XAML in the bottom pane of the designer or use the Document Outline pane (docked to the left side of the window by default) to go directly to the element:
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