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Monday 13 August 2012

A WinRT behavior to turn a FlipView into a kind of Windows 8 Panorama

A WinRT behavior to turn a FlipView into a kind of Windows 8 Panorama One of the most beautiful controls of Windows Phone is the Panorama. It’s ideal for showing a lot related content on a small screen and enable the user to easily pan trough it. A visual cue for ‘there is more’ is provided by showing a little part of the next panel to the very right of the current data. A typical example is showed right.  

It’s also one of the most abused controls (guilty as charged Your Honor), but still I wanted to port Catch’em Birds to Windows 8 – and I found out there was no ready-to-use control. After fighting with ScrollViewers and GridViewers and whatnot I came to this very simple behavior, which basically takes a FlipView and hammers it into a kind of Panorama.

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Download WinRtBehaviors CodePlex project

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