Creating A Sticky AppBar in Win8

In talking with other developers, there seems to be a growing fear that creating an AppBar for Windows 8 is somehow difficult or complex. Nothing could be further from true; creating an AppBar is quite straight forward.

To illustrate this, I’ve created an application that creates a simple app bar and adds a ToggleSwitch to turn on and off the IsSticky attribute.  When IsSticky is off (the default) you can dismiss the AppBar by clicking anywhere in the application off the AppBar.  When IsSticky is set to true, however, you must make the same gesture you made to get the AppBar to appear (swiping from top down or bottom up) to make it disappear.

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