Windows Phone Custom Control Design and Implementation

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I am working on a windows phone app, in which I will need to add a costom "cover-flow" kind of control like how it looks like in the Spotify app below: enter image description here

Note: user can swipe from right to left to change song. I don't think Windows Phone SDK provide any controls support this, so I was wondering how such a thing is implemented.

I think it is either faked by a pivot page with dynamically adding/deleting pivot items, or maybe it is a custom control.

If I want to implement this as a custom control, does anyone has experience about it, or any sample code/tutorial will be very helpful.

Thank you

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There is a control within Telerik's phone controls called the SlideView that does this. - Shawn Kendrot
@ShawnKendrotThank you. It looks like I need to pay a lot of money to get this control kit. Is there a free way to implement such a thing? - Allan Jiang
It's only $99. You can get it for free if you sign up for the Nokia Premium Developer Program. You also get a free token for the Phone Store to create (or renew) a publisher account and an account with Buddy.com. (FYI It costs $99 to create a publisher account through MS, so you get a lot of stuff for free). Totally worth it! - Shawn Kendrot

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You're looking at a Panorama control. It is available out of the box with the Windows Phone SDK.

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Telerik makes a great control that does just this. It's called the SlideView control. I know it's not free, but it is only $99. Given that it might take you about 4-10 hours to create this control yourself, I'd say it's worth it. If you join the Nokia Premium Developer Program you get Telerik's controls for free.

Note: I do not work for Nokia or Telerik and this is NOT a paid advertisement :)

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The swipping effect is because of Panorama page. to change music you need to handle gestures that will be a tough task . The solution is to find a hack or have some control in the background that registers the touch event and changes the music