Summary
This chapter began by exploring the properties and events that govern page orientation. The PhoneApplicationPage.Orientation
property affects orientation only at design time. The PhoneApplicationPage.SupportedOrientations
property is used to change the orientation at runtime.
The chapter then looked at using a custom IValueConverter
to hide and display page elements depending on the page’s orientation. You then saw how to animate page elements using the VisualStateManager
, and how to substitute an application’s RootVisual
with a custom PhoneApplicationFrame
to animate the entire page when the orientation changes.
Finally, the chapter looked at animating page transitions using the Windows Phone Toolkit.
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