Question

i am developing a Windows 8 “Metro” App. In this App I want to put an Image as a wallpaper.
The Image is 1600×900 Pixels big. Now, when i try a bigger Screen in the Simulator the Image
is not scaled to fill the whole Screen. How can i achieve this? I tried to follow the Microsoft
Guidelines for different Screen sizes, like for example putting the Image in a canvas, but it doesnt
work. Can someone help me?

Thank you very much

Answer 1

I am not sure what exactly what you have tried, or which guidelines your were looking at. But you can always add an ImageBrush to your Grid like this.

<Page
    x:Class="App3.MainPage"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:local="using:App3"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
    mc:Ignorable="d">

    <Grid>
        <Grid.Background>
            <ImageBrush ImageSource="Assets/img101.jpg"/>
        </Grid.Background>
        <TextBlock Name="txt1" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Text="Hello World" FontFamily="Arial" FontSize="60" ></TextBlock>
    </Grid>
</Page>