Those of you who have some Windows Phone development experience will remember the Panorama control for sure.

Control had a nice effect where background content was moving slowly below foreground, this effects is named Parallax and you’ll be glad to know that, starting from Fall Creators Update you can have this effects easily back into your own UWP applications, thanks to ParallaxView parte of the new Fluid Design System.

Let’s see it in action:

Create a new UWP application targeting Fall Creators Update (unfortunately ParallaxView is not available on older platforms)

let’s now add the ParallaxView to MainPage.Xaml

ParallaxView has a Child property that is used to represent the content that is scrolled slowly, in this case I defined it directly inside the ParallaxView.

The key property is Source that you can bind to an element that can be a ScrollViewer or an element that contains a ScrollViewer like a ListView or a RichTextBox. (Note: I tried to nest ListView definition directly inside ParallaxView but seems not to work)

Nothing special to mention about ListBox apart tha:

-I used the ‘new’ PersonPicture control -The ListView must be placed after the ParallaxView definition, otherwise it wont work

Codebehind is quite straighforward:

The control supports both Verticaland and Horizontal scrolling and the most important property is probably Vertical/HorizontalShift that govers ‘how fast’ background scrolls, chose the one the best fits for you.

Using Vertical/HorizontalStartOffset it is possible to fine tune background scrolling behavior (play with them…)

Here’s final result, what do you think?