Windows Phone 8.1 Template Pack

This is a powerful pack with 2 ready to use Windows Phone 8.1 applications templates. These templates allow you to design applications with top bar and/or a slide menu without copy&paste them to each page of the application.

Features

Menu

• Global slide menu: one menu, for entaire application
• Swipe ready: menu open and close with a simple gesture, everywhere in the app
• Flexible: menu content can be defined for each page or for all the application
• Customizable: menu is a simple UIElement container, you can put in it everything

TopBar

• Global top bar: on the top of each page without horrible C&P
• Flexible: one content for entaire application or one for each page
• Customizable: top bar is a simple UIElement container, you can put in it everything

Better coding

C&P menu and top bar in each page is a waste of time and performance. With these template the elements are definedone time in a root frame container. The application (Frame) is inside this container. You can edit container for customize the global experience, or "develop normally" to build pages.

Ready to use

Download VSIX from Visual Studio Gallery to start develop NOW. Available for Visual Studio 2013 and 14.

Repository on GitHub

This repository contains templates' original projects, VSIX project and some commons data.

How to

Download and install VSIX from Visual Studio Gallery. Open Visual Studio and create new project. Go to Visual C# project template group and choose "Menu and topbar application (Windows Phone 8.1)" or "Topbar application (Windows Phone 8.1). Rename project name and click ok. Template is self-explicative,

Learn about

If you want to understand how this template works, read this article on my website. It explains everythings about this solution and some ways to extend these templates or create newer ones.