How to request search contract XAML for Windows 8 be changed out of the box?

Locked How to request search contract XAML for Windows 8 be changed out of the box?

  • Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:55 AM
     
     

    I recently had worked through this issue (http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithcsharp/thread/6e6815a2-86a0-4805-a46e-c3602bf8b977) dealing with search results.  What I found when I got everything working is that when the user clicked on a search filter to see results and the filter had no results, the TextBlock for NoResultsFound was shown.  That's good and what I was trying to achieve.  However, from a usability standpoint, it's difficult for the user to navigate between the filters.  Let's say my filters are apples, oranges, and lemons.  I'm looking for "lemons" but that filter group had no results.  The screen is modified via the VisualStateGroups XAML to display the TextBlock "NoResultsFound" but it HIDES the filters!  I modified my XAML to have it hide just the GridView of results.  This allows the user to easily navigate over to the oranges filter and back.  Without this, a user who sees "No Results Found" has to do another search as the Back button/arrow takes them out of the search page completely.

    So I'm trying to figure out how do I submit this so that it be considered for change in the out of the box template and XAML that comes with the search contract.  I apologize if I've posted to the wrong forum.