I am working on a Win8 app destined for the Windows Store. Hurdles I am trying to overcome is how to deal with the different ways an app can be displayed.
Currently, my main pages is a LayoutAwarePage
so it has logic to handle different visual states. However, my question is more how to make my page render differently depending on its state.
I thought, initially, that you basically created a layout for each state that the application supports. But it seems like the VisualStateManager
portion of the XAML is just an area where you make piecemeal modifications to the design (hide an element, change an alignment).
I am working with a grid that has many columns and rows to organize my controls and it looks great in fullscreen. However, this doesn't work at all in the snapped state, as most of my controls become hidden off screen. I could certainly add a ScrollViewer
control, but this is basically a hack and a usability nightmare for a user.
Thanks for any insight!