From the course: Developing UWP Apps: 2 Basic Controls and Patterns
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From the course: Developing UWP Apps: 2 Basic Controls and Patterns
Next steps
- [Instructor] Now that we have some pretty good working experience and a pretty solid understanding of controls, control patterns, and things like data templates, here are some good next steps. Number one, work with non-visual controls. Here's a good opportunity to check out things like the media element control, and take advantage of those properties, events, and methods. And another great place to go is start creating custom controls. We're going to cover leveraging third-party controls and creating our own custom controls in another session, but this is where some of these control and control patterning concepts really have a lot of power. And then finally, we took a look at the grid view control here, and we've mentioned the list view control, but there are a number of controls that inherit from the items panel, such as the Flip View. It's honestly a pretty great control and it could be fun to go in and experiment with overriding elements of the Flip View control and the control…
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