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• Marvin commented  ·  May 25, 2013 9:05 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Basically, ApplicationBar, ApplicationBarIconButton and ApplicationBarMenuItem only have to inherit from FrameworkElement and 'Text' and other properties be changed to 'DependencyProperty's.
  It would be very easy to write a BindableApplicationButton, if PhoneApplicationPage allowed an Application bar not only being ApplicationBar, but rather every type inherited of IApplicationBar.

  Greetings!

• Daniel Vaughan commented  ·  April 10, 2013 2:13 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Calcium SDK has a pretty useful bindable Application Bar wrapper. I use that for all my apps. http://calciumsdk.com

• Eugeniy commented  ·  July 19, 2012 6:03 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  you can always write your own application bar
  Or you can write ApplicationBar wrapper, which will support binding and so on...

• Sudarsan Srinivasan commented  ·  January 8, 2012 5:55 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  A must thing for a dev who is used to writing MVVM pattern based code.

• Pedro Lamas commented  ·  November 23, 2011 4:27 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please check my Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit for a bindable ApplicationBar behavior! ;)

  https://github.com/PedroLamas/Cimbalino-Phone-Toolkit

• Valentin Stoychev commented  ·  July 6, 2011 1:26 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This is a also a BIG problem when you want to localize the buttons.

• xaeryan commented  ·  June 17, 2011 8:44 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Lack of Commanding for ApplicationBar is a major annoyance for me, resulting in some less than ideal workarounds for updating Enabled status of these controls.

• Richard Szalay commented  ·  May 31, 2011 12:59 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  @Peter - Mark is likely referring to MVVM. As ApplicationBar buttons/icons are not DependencyObjects, they cannot be bound to. This requires adding code to the code behind, which can't be tested.

• Peter Wone commented  ·  May 23, 2011 3:46 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  No way to get a reference? Bollocks. Declare a page member.

  ApplicationBarIconButton appbar_buttonAddToFavourites;

  Then set it in OnNavigatedTo.

  appbar_buttonAddToFavourites = ApplicationBar.Buttons[0] as ApplicationBarIconButton;

  The buttons are indexed 0..3 in the order they are declared in XAML.

• kkarman commented  ·  April 24, 2011 4:14 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  this suggestion was already mentioned. please remove it and vote for the other.

• kkarman commented  ·  April 24, 2011 4:12 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Also, I would like to have animations for the applicationbar as in the native e-mail client