Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Repeat and Toggle Buttons

Neither the RepeatButton nor the ToggleButton controls are abstract. Yet both reside in the System.Windows.Controls.Primitives namespace, not in the System.Windows.Controls namespace, indicating that these two controls are not intended to be used in day-to-day page code.

Repeat Button

The RepeatButton behaves the same as the Button control; however, the RepeatButton’s Tap event is raised repeatedly while it is being pressed, whereas the Button control raises its Tap event once for each user press.

The RepeatButton is used as part of the ScrollBar control, which itself is part of the ScrollViewer control. Unlike Silverlight for the browser, however, which uses the RepeatButton to incrementally scroll content when pressed, ...