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Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Showing the AppBar for HTML Metro Applications in Design Mode using Expression Blend for Visual Studio 2012

Showing the AppBar for HTML Metro Applications in Design Mode using Expression Blend for Visual Studio 2012Showing the AppBar in XAML Metro Applications requires no special tips or tricks, just place the code on your page and open it in Blend and you will see the AppBar:
 
HTML Metro Application on the other hand doesn’t have this luxury, instead you have to enabled it. Open Visual studio 2012 and create a new JavaScript Metro Application and replace everything inside default.html

Notice the div that specifies the AppBar. Go ahead and right click on default.html and open it in Blend. Once launched, you won’t see your AppBar in the design view. You have to manually navigate to your AppBar from the Live DOM then right-click and say “Activate AppBar”

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