Windows 8 Metro style listbox

Question

I am creating a wpf style application, but to start the page I needed to create a Windows 8 start screen, such as listbox, in Windows 7 and .NetFramework 4.0 .

I used Listbox and Wrappanel now, but as you can see, this is not clear !!!

Please help me fill in the blank box.

CHANGE change button layout

Answer 1

look: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/370650/Simple-Metro-Style-Panorama-Control-for-WPF author: Sacha Barber

Answer 2

it’s not trivial at all ... even the guys from Microsoft told me that at a recent training I had ..

I recommend following the next article, which has something very close to what you need!

http://tozon.info/blog/post/2012/09/01/Variable-sized-grid-items-in-Windows-8-apps.aspx

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

VariableSizeWrapGrid does the trick:

<GridView> <GridView.ItemsPanel> <ItemsPanelTemplate> <VariableSizeWrapGrid ItemHeight="100" ItemWidth="150"/> </ItemsPanelTemplate> </GridView.ItemsPanel> </GridView> 

Example result:

Answer 4

Use the WrapPanel for the layout, and you're done:

 <ListBox> ... <ListBox.ItemsPanel> <ItemsPanelTemplate> <WrapPanel /> </ItemsPanelTemplate> </ListBox.ItemsPanel> </ListBox>