Top Ranked – Control Feedback on Tap
In this episode, I focus on another small tweak that developers can add to their apps that will help make those apps look a lot more like native apps. I’m referring to the addition of the Tilt Effect to controls. By default, when you add controls to the canvas in Visual Studio or Expression Blend they do not get the tilt effect. This may seem like a small thing but as I’ve mentioned before the experience is something that users will notice and their ratings and as a result your rankings will be affected by that.
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The thing is, that there is, in fact, a really easy way to add the tilt effect to your apps using the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit . You can grab the source code for that from Codeplex or, even easier, you can just pull it in to your project and reference it using Nuget.
Adding the Tilt Effect is as simple as adding the namespace for the toolkit and then adding the effect to either the individual controls or to the entire page. In most cases it shouldn’t take you more than a few seconds on each of the pages in your project so there’s really no reason for you not to take advantage of this.
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