Windows 8 Using XAML, Part 10: Styles, Sources, and Zoom

with expert Ken Getz

In this Windows 8 course you will start with investigating control templates and default styles for ListView and GridView controls, and override those styles. Then you will use the sample ListView and GridView templates provided in Microsoft’s documentation. Next the course will show you how to create a grouped data source and bind an ItemsControl to the grouped data source, using a GroupStyle object to define the group style. Then you will see how to use a SemanticZoom control to display two views of the same data, using a grouped data source.


Intermediate | 1h 13m | March 04, 2013

Visual StudioXAML.NETWindows 8 DesignWindows 8 AppsC#Windows 8 Development

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Ken Getz

Ken Getz is a featured instructor for several of our Visual Studio courses. He is a Visual Basic and Visual C# expert and has been recognized multiple times as a Microsoft MVP. Ken is a seasoned instructor, successful consultant, and the author or co-author of several best-selling books. He is a frequent speaker at technical conferences like Tech-Ed, VSLive, and DevConnections and he has written for several of the industry's most-respected publications including Visual Studio Magazine, CoDe Magazine, and MSDN Magazine.




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