Summary

This chapter began by looking at the differences and similarities of the Pivot and Panorama. You saw how the Pivot is designed to be used for completing a task, whereas the Panorama is designed to entice the user to explore.

The chapter then looked at the anatomy of the Pivot and how to create a simple Pivot driven page. You saw how to use the Pivot load events, allowing you to load content on demand, and you explored a novel approach that allows you to associate a different application bar with each PivotItem using a custom AppBar control. You then learned how to create a Pivot driven chat app, which was augmented to demonstrate implicit PivotItem generation and templating. By generating PivotItems by assigning the Pivot.ItemsSource property, the Pivot can be dynamically populated at runtime.

The second part of this chapter focused on the Panorama. You saw how to create a simple bookshop app that uses a WCF service to retrieve a list of products displayed within a Panorama.

Finally, the chapter concluded by looking at some things to avoid when using a Pivot or Panorama.