Fluent Windows® 8.1 App Development

5. XAML Controls, Part 1: Basic Widgets

Now that you know how to use panels to arrange the UI widgets in your application and how to control the layout of those widgets, it’s time to explore the widgets that those panels arrange. Most—but not all—of these widgets are XAML controls (in the technical sense of “classes that descend from the Control class”.) Controls and control-like widgets are the subject of this chapter and the next.

We’ll start in this chapter by examining the Control class itself and the hierarchy of classes that descend from it, because knowing where a given widget sits in the class hierarchy tells you a lot about how it works and how to use it. Then we’ll move on to exploring the basic controls that are available to your Win8 ...