Rotator Tile Control In UWP With XAML And C#

Before reading this article, please go through the articles, given below-

1. Introduction To Universal Windows Platform (UWP) App Development Using Windows 10 And Visual Studio 2015
2. How to add UWP ToolKit controls in Universal Application Development With XAML AND C#

The Rotator Tile Control is an Item Control which rotates through a set of items, one-by-one. It enables you to show multiple items of data in a live-tile like way.

Reading this article, you can learn how to use UWP Tool Kit Control - Rotator Tile Control in Universal Windows apps development with XAML and Visual C#.

The important tools required to develop UWP are-

1. Windows 10 (Recommended)
2. Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition (It is a free software available online)

Now, we can discuss step by step app development.

Step 1- Open Visual Studio 2015 -> Start -> New Project-> Select Universal (under Visual C#->Windows)-> Blank app -> Give the suitable name for your app (UWPRotatorTile)->OK.



Step 2 - Choose the target and minimum platform version for your Windows app. Afterwards, the project creates App.xaml and MainPage.xaml.



To add UWPToolKit Control, please refer the link, given below-

• How to add UWP ToolKit controls in Universal Application Development With XAML AND C#

Step 3 - Add TextBlock control and change the name and text property for title, as given below-



Step 4 - Add images in the Assets folder, images for Rotator Tile Control, as given below-



Step 5 - Add the Xaml code, given below to create the data template for UWP RotatorTile Control.

<Page.Resources>
    <DataTemplate x:Key="photos">
        <Grid Background="White">
            <Image Source="{Binding IName}" Width="250" Height="150" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Stretch="UniformToFill" />
        </Grid>
    </DataTemplate>
</Page.Resources>

">

Step 6 - Add UWP Tool Kit Name Space in Mainpage.xaml.

xmlns:Controls="using:Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.UI.Controls"

Add RotatorTile Control from Tool Kit and set the Name, ItemTemplate properties. 

">

Note- Automatically, the code, given below, will be generated in XAML code view, while we are done in the design view. 

<Page xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:local="using:UWPRotatorTile" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:Controls="using:Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.UI.Controls" x:Class="UWPRotatorTile.MainPage" mc:Ignorable="d">
    <Page.Resources>
        <DataTemplate x:Key="photos">
            <Grid Background="White">
                <Image Source="{Binding IName}" Width="250" Height="150" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Stretch="UniformToFill" />
            </Grid>
        </DataTemplate>
    </Page.Resources>
    <Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">
        <TextBlock x:Name="tblTitle" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="202,57,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Rotator Tile Control Test" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="29" Width="239" FontWeight="Bold" FontSize="20" />
        <Controls:RotatorTile x:Name="ROTtest" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="186,139,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="250" Height="150" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource photos}" />
    </Grid>
</Page>

Step 7- Add namespace and the code, given below, in MainPage.xaml.cs,

using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
public class MenuItem {
    public string IName {
        get;
        set;
    }
}
public sealed partial class MainPage: Page {
    public MainPage() {
        this.InitializeComponent();
        ObservableCollection < MenuItem > items = new ObservableCollection < MenuItem > ();
        items.Add(new MenuItem() {
            IName = "ms-appx:///Assets//01.jpg"
        });
        items.Add(new MenuItem() {
            IName = "ms-appx:///Assets//02.jpg"
        });
        items.Add(new MenuItem() {
            IName = "ms-appx:///Assets//03.jpg"
        });
        items.Add(new MenuItem() {
            IName = "ms-appx:///Assets//04.jpg"
        });
        items.Add(new MenuItem() {
            IName = "ms-appx:///Assets//05.jpg"
        });
        items.Add(new MenuItem() {
            IName = "ms-appx:///Assets//06.jpg"
        });
        ROTtest.ItemsSource = items;
    }
}

Step 8- Deploy your app in Local Machine and the output of UWPRotatorTile app is-

First Tile Item Display in RotatorTile



Other Item in RotatorTile after the rotation



Summary - Now, you have successfully tested UWP Tool Kit – RotatorTile Control in Visual C# - UWP environment.