Making an App Catalog with ListBox for Windows Phone 8

All apps should include an about page as a way to engage with your users. If you’re part of DVLUP this is a basic requirement of most challenges. The about page should describe your app, you the author & include your contact details in case your users want to provide any feedback. Also it can be used to showcase your other apps. I earlier wrote an tutorial on using app catalog using Telerik Controls.

Making an App Catalog with Telerik RadControl Data Bound ListBox for Windows Phone 8

As the controls are not free, you all may not have access to it. In this tip I am providing you the source code of the project without using Telerik Controls. You can refer the previous post for the steps.

AppCatalog

How to create a Scrolling Horizontal menu bar in Windows phone app

In order to build a Scrolling Horizontal menu bar in Windows phone app you need to disable the VerticalScrollbarVisibility and should set the HorizontalScrollbarVisibility to Auto or Hidden as according to your wish. An example is given below.
HorizontalScrollbarVisibility.Hidden

We will be creating a horizontal scrolling list of different images placed inside a Scroll viewer. The code for the following is given below.

The output image is give below

 

 

You can download the project zip file from the link given below
Download full project source file Horizontal list menu.zip