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Asked: 2026-06-15T14:32:05+00:00

I’m creating my first Windows Phone 8 application and I have decided to write

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I’m creating my first Windows Phone 8 application and I have decided to write a simple ToDo application. I want to emulate the native UI experience as much as possible. In this case I’ve chosen the Linked Inbox and Messaging apps to emulate.

I’ve got the main look and feel easy enough by using the Pivot control and the ListBox control. What I can’t figure out how to do is to emulate the behavior of tapping the left edge of the screen to put the list into a multiselect mode where check boxes will appear next to each item.

I’ve looked at both the ListBox and the LongListSelector controls. The latter only appears to support selecting a single item, so it looks like I need to use the List control.

I’m wondering if there is a 3rd control I haven’t found yet that does what I want, or if the functionality I’m looking for isn’t baked into a control by default and I essentially need to reinvent the wheel.

Thanks

EDIT: Corrected List to ListBox

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can get this functionality from the MultiSelectList from the Windows Phone Toolkit which is published by Microsoft on NuGet.
    For examples of how to use it see http://windowsphonegeek.com/articles/Windows-Phone-Toolkit-MultiselectList-in-depth–Part1-key-concepts-and-API. Or else see the sample project from the source code on Codeplex

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