From the course: Developing UWP Apps: 2 Basic Controls and Patterns

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Control patterns

Control patterns

- [Instructor] I've used this term pattern a number of times in this session and quite honestly, this isn't a term that we normally apply to these types of concepts. We think of patterns and practices and just ways to do things, but just for clarification, a pattern is simply a recipe for combining several controls to make something new like combining a pivot control and labels to create a tab control. We're going to see this all over the place in the universal Windows platform. After this session, if you were to go to the Windows App Store for example and download apps, you'll notice that these patterns have been followed typically all over the place especially by successful app developers. Another thing you may not realize unless you've been doing universal Windows platform development for a long time is that these control patterns are really used everywhere including in things that aren't actually considered by most people to be controls like interactive tiles on your desktop and…

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