Question

In a Windows Phone 7 application I use a Pivot for UI. As one of the items of the Pivot a XAML page is inserted, as:

<Pivot_Item>
<myviews:a_page.xaml/>
</Pivot_Item>

An application bar – a standard template – is used within that page only, as the whole Pivot doesn’t need it. But this doesn’t work. For now I was only able either to activate the bar for the every Pivot item or to use it for a separate non-pivot page.

Answer 1

The easiest way to do this is simply to handle the Pivot’s LoadingPivotItem event.

Assign that PivotItem a name:

<Pivot_Item Name="myPivotItem">
<myviews:a_page.xaml/>
</Pivot_Item>

In the code:

private void pivotMain_LoadingPivotItem(object sender, PivotItemEventArgs e)
{
     if (e.Item == myPivotItem) 
        ApplicationBar.IsVisible = true;
     else
        ApplicationBar.IsVisible = false;  
}