Customizing your UWP app
We saw in the previous recipe that creating a new UWP app is pretty simple, but in VS2015, the choices are limited to some basic types. Rather than provide some pre-made templates around common design themes (such as Hub, Split, Items, and so on) as was done previously in VS2013, Microsoft has instead decided to provide us with a blank canvas with which to work. Let's see how we can spruce it up a bit.
Getting ready
Windows 10 is required for this recipe. Visual Studio Community will be used to provide the example screenshots, but of course, a premium edition or VS Express for Windows 10 would also be suitable. If you still have the UWP app created in the previous recipe, open that solution file.
How to do it...
We are going to start with a brand new UWP app, so create a Blank App template. For our example, we will use C#:
- Create a new UWP app using the Blank App template.
- Once the project has opened, open the file
MainPage.xaml, as shown in the following screenshot...
