Universal Windows® Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed

Summary

You’ve now seen all the major built-in controls that can be used for creating a wide variety of user interfaces. Although you can radically change the look of these controls by using the techniques discussed in Chapter 17, the core behavior described in this part of the book remains the same.

The suite of built-in controls continue to be enhanced by additional toolkits that ship independently, some free and some not. For example, Telerik (http://telerik.com) sells a large suite of controls that includes Chart, Gauge, NumericBox, and AutoCompleteBox. For another example, Bing provides fantastic controls for 2D and 3D maps (if you want more custom integration than what you get by launching the Maps app), language translation, Optical Character ...