A couple of days ago Sébastien Lachance wrote an excellent article about mimicking the application bar of the game hub. Really interesting for one of my applications which makes use of a minimal applicationbar that's also transparant. However quite often the texts of the menu are difficult to read when they don't have a solid backgroud. That's exactly what is solved in the game hub: a transparant applicationbar, but when expanded to view the menu it has a solid background. And Sébastien also found a solution how to fix this in our own applications.
However Sébastien is using the ApplicationBar, I'm using the wrapper around the ApplicationBar, called BindableApplicationBar that's part of the Phone7.Fx project. So how to solve this?
The ApplicationBar and BindableApplicationBar both implement ...
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