Not long ago I wrote a blog post about Responsive Pivot Headers in Universal Windows Platform apps. Paul responded to this post asking how to change the background of the selected item, just like the example I posted on top of the post. It's a great question and I'm sorry I didn't cover this part so the pivot looks more like the example image. An omission I want to correct with this blog post.

For a Universal Windows App I wanted to implement a Pivot. Reading the guidelines for tabs and pivots by Microsoft I got inspired by the examples given. However, no code samples are supplied so there is no indication how to actually create this in your own Xaml app. In this blogpost I will show the different steps to get the basics done and I will supply the source code for you to use.

I received a couple of comments on my article about making the pull-down-to-refresh work with a Windows Phone virtualizing list control. The problem was that the functionality stopped working after navigating away from the page containing the ItemsControl. Today I committed the code to GitHub to fix this issue.

The other day I was working on a Windows Phone app. I wanted to add a "pull down to refresh" panel to a large list of images. Just like the Facebook and Twitter apps have. As Microsoft does not provide this functionality in their default controls I started searching the web if somebody else has build something like this already. I found a blog post by Jason Ginchereau where he provided this functionality for Windows Phone 7. In my app I use an ItemsControl with a VirtualizingStackPanel to prevent memory issues. After I added the PullDownToRefreshPanel control to my list and started testing it on my phone, I ran into some issues. In this blog post I will describe my contributions to fix these 2 issues and I will supply the source code for you to use.