Custom Pivot Header with Animation

Boston Windows Developer

I recently wanted to make a header with tabs for my app’s pages that have a Pivot. Something like Office Mobile, but without the drop-down menus. Here’s the result I got in my upcoming app. I decided to post a tutorial and provide a sample app.

Notice the fast fade-in of the background color of the tab, this is important and is where you’ll be able to add your own flavor to the style after you’ve completed this tutorial. Ok, let’s get started!

Step One: Create the base elements

The two main components are a Pivot control and a ListView control. The Pivot has been stripped of it’s title template and pivot header templates. To get started, let’s do a File > New Pivot App (WinRT, not Silverlight) so that we’ll have some sample data and a pre-existing Pivot.

After the project template finishes, open PivotPage.XAML and add RequestedTheme=”Light” to the page’s properties. Next, find the root…

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