As I’ve been working through my own applications for Windows 10, I’ve come accustomed to creating app-wide navigation using this new SplitView control. As such, I needed to create a way for me to display the pages of the app without navigating away or having to write the SplitView into my controls multiple times as I may have when I used to create Windows 8.1 universal applications.As such, I created my own custom template which essentially does all of this for me out of the box, creating me an app template that I can jump into without any modifications to it.It includes a simple menu system, similar to that shown in the apps in the image at the top of this article, where you can see the icons when the menu is collapsed but you get more content out of it when it’s expanded.The template also contains a Frame within the SplitView which is used for the main navigation part of the application, so when you select an item in the custom SplitView menu, it will cause a navigation event to occur within the Frame. This means you can create applications that use a common app page utilizing the new SplitView control but also keep that same MVVM friendly navigation of applications that you’re familiar with in Windows 8.1!As it has been extremely helpful for developing familiar Windows 10 apps, I’ve posted up the source for my template on GitHub which you can take a look at here: Windows-Universal-SplitViewTemplate Feel free to leave any feedback, especially if you find any problems with the template, and definitely feel free to contribute towards it if there are areas you feel could be improved!