Providing Custom Looping Lists with the LoopingSelector
The previous section looked at the DatePicker
and TimePicker
controls, whose base class, DateTimePickerBase
, relies on a simpler control called LoopingSelector
to display date and time values.
LoopingSelector
provides all the functionality for an infinitely looping list of values.
LoopingSelector
is not intended to be used day-to-day like other controls presented in this chapter, and as a result it resides in the Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Primitives namespace. Nonetheless, it is a useful control.
To use the control you must define a data source, which can be any object that implements ILoopingSelectorDataSource
. The ILoopingSelectorDataSource
interface defines the following four members: ...
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