Question

I’m having a hard time trying to display how my textblock look like in the pivotitem. How do i make it look like the default one where u will get when u create a pivot project?

Thanks! 🙂

private void LoadFromLocalStorage()
{
    using (IsolatedStorageFile store = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication())
    {
        string[] fileNames = store.GetFileNames();

        foreach (string s in fileNames)
        {

            TextBlock txt = new TextBlock() { Text = s };
            container.Children.Add(txt);


            //PivotItem pitem = new PivotItem(); //create pivotitem                
            //pitem.Content =  //set pivotitem content
            //MyPivot.Items.Add(pitem);//Add pivotitem to your pivot

        }
    }
}

XAML

 <controls:Pivot Title="MY APPLICATION">
            <!--Pivot item one-->
            <controls:PivotItem Header="item1">

                    <StackPanel x:Name="container"></StackPanel>
            </controls:PivotItem>

Answer 1

Edit the HeaderTemplate of the Pivot. Here’s the default template:

<DataTemplate x:Key="DataTemplate1">
            <Grid>
                <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="{Binding}" d:LayoutOverrides="Width, Height"/>
            </Grid>
        </DataTemplate>

use like

<controls:Pivot Title="MY APPLICATION" HeaderTemplate="{StaticResource DataTemplate1}">

edit: if you’re trying to display your items in the PivotItem, you should use a ListBox.

Add this to the top of the Page XAML.

 <phone:PhoneApplicationPage.Resources>
            <DataTemplate x:Key="DataTemplate1">
                <Grid>
                    <TextBlock Margin="0,0,1,0" Text="{Binding}" TextWrapping="Wrap" d:LayoutOverrides="Width, Height" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextExtraLargeStyle}"/>
                </Grid>
            </DataTemplate>
        </phone:PhoneApplicationPage.Resources>

Inside your PivotItem, add a listbox:

<ListBox x:Name="lbFiles" HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource DataTemplate1}">

                </ListBox>

Then, change your function for getting filenames:

private void LoadFromLocalStorage()
{
    using (IsolatedStorageFile store = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication())
    {
        string[] fileNames = store.GetFileNames();
        var files = new ObservableCollection<string>();

        foreach (string s in fileNames)
        {
            files.Add(s);
        }
        lbFiles.ItemsSource = files;
    }
}

Here, the listbox ‘ItemSource’ is set to the list of filenames.

If this isn’t familiar to you, you should go through some WP7 tutorials. It is pretty basic.

http://create.msdn.com/en-us/education/quickstarts