Chapter 10. ApplicationBar, Panorama, and Pivot controls
The Windows Phone comes with a variation of Silverlight 4. This means that if you know how to build Silverlight applications, you know how to build Windows Phone applications. This chapter is the first of four chapters dedicated to Silverlight controls and how to use them on the phone platform. In this chapter we introduce controls that are unique to Silverlight for Windows Phone.
Windows Phone 7 has redefined how an application displays a toolbar and menu. Applications use the new ApplicationBar control to show up to four shortcut icons for the most common operations on the page. If additional options are available but don’t fit in the bar containing shortcuts or a different level of granularity must be provided, developers can add textual menu items as well. In this chapter we’ll cover how to create a basic menu which can be used in your applications.