Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Reusing the Transition Attached Properties

The transition attached properties are rather verbose, and adding them to every page in your app adds a substantial amount of duplication. Fortunately you can create a reusable style that can be applied to each page.

Listing 4.4 shows a style called TransitionPageStyle, whose TargetType is of PhoneApplicationPage. The transition properties are placed within the style, so that when the style is applied to a page, so too are the navigation transition properties.

LISTING 4.4. TransitionPageStyle in App.xaml

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<Application.Resources>    <Style x:Key="TransitionPageStyle" TargetType="phone:PhoneApplicationPage">        <Setter Property="toolkit:TransitionService.NavigationInTransition"> ...