Chapter 7. Application Bar
When you're ready to program your Windows Phone 7 application in Visual Studio, you'll know what general features your application will provide. Each of the major application features will need to be accessible via a shortcut or some form of a navigation menu. For Windows Phone 7 applications, Microsoft recommends that you use a standard Windows Phone 7 Application Bar to provide shortcuts for most common tasks within the application. Metro UI design concepts for Windows Phone 7 were covered in Part 1 of this book. The use of an Application Bar within the application helps ensure that these guidelines are properly observed.
An Application Bar is essentially a Windows Phone 7 menu system with clickable icons that conform ...
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