Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Handling Manipulation Events

When a manipulation begins, the ManipulationStarted event is raised. The event handler accepts a ManipulationStartedEventArgs parameter, as shown:

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void HandleManipulationStarted(object sender, ManipulationStartedEventArgs e){    /* method body */}

Contrary to the low-level TouchPoint API, there is no need to store the ID of the touch point to track its motion. In fact, the manipulation events do not offer individual touch point information. If you need that information, the low-level TouchPoint API may be more suitable.

During manipulation, the ManipulationDelta event is raised when a touch point is added to the ManipulationContainer element, or when the position of a touch point on the ...