Skydrive UI

Question

What is the UI control that skydrive uses for display tiles? Eg, like on this page http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsappdev/archive/2012/09/12/integrating-your-cloud-service-with-the-file-picker-contracts.aspx

Answer 1

That looks like a GridView (the horizontal version of the ListView)

Xaml: Adding ListView and GridView controls
HTML: Quickstart: Adding a ListView

--Rob

Answer 2

Thanks, for the reply. Some of the tiles span multiple rows, how is that achieved?

Answer 3

It requires some significant customization. The details will depend on if you are using HTML or Xaml. If you will clarify which you are using I can move this to the appropriate forum for you.

For an overview of how to do this in Xaml (based on pre-release code, but the concepts are the same) see How To: Create a Variable Sized Grouped GridView (like the store)

--Rob