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Introduction In my last article, we saw the controls to design our Windows Store application. In this article, we will follow the layout design guidelines provided by Microsoft for Windows Store applications. All the images for this article are taken from MSDN. As a developer, we have to follow all the aspects of application development. For example, there is a wide range of monitor screens available in today's market. We must be careful to ensure our application looks good to the end-user by maintaining the application UI layout. In this article, we will go through some interesting and required points which we need to keep in mind while developing Windows Store applications. What is Layout? As a developer, I hope you understand what Layout is. The layout means the sizing and positioning of an application's objects and controls on the UI surface of our application. Applications usually consist of visual objects and controls to do something on it. Whenever we are thinking about layout then we must have at least one container control and inside that container control, we have some child objects/controls which built our application UI surface. As we know in the market there are various sizes of devices available. To provide a great application for the end-user we must ensure our application provides a great user experience for various devices. Since Microsoft has suggested multiple kinds of layouts we will see those layouts in the following. Fixed Layout/Absolute Layout From word fixed it is clear that it is a fixed layout and cannot be resized according to the screen. If we are targeting an application with a fixed size, for example, games, then we can use this fixed layout. Applications with a fixed layout cannot adapt to the screen size. This layout is designed using fixed pixel sizes. In applications like games this layout is often used because in that kind of application there are maximum-sized images and they are also limited in other words we are not adding some extra content to the application. Dynamic/Adaptive Layout As the name indicates, dynamic/adaptive means if the screen size changes then the objects available in the UI are also resized automatically. For Windows Store applications we have such built-in controls provided by Visual Studio which have this mechanism by default. Whenever the application changes the screen size then the controls and objects (Grid, LIstview, etc.) are automatically adapted to that screen size. From the preceding discussion, I hope you are clear about the layout concept. Next, we will discuss what you should do when developing your Windows Store application. View State When you are developing your Windows Store application, take care of view state. View state refers to how your application will be displayed by the user on their devices. The user can act in three possible ways with your application. We will discuss those acts of the user. Full View In my last article, we saw the controls to design our Windows Store application. In this article, we will follow the layout design guidelines provided by Microsoft for Windows Store applications. All the images for this article are taken from MSDN.As a developer, we have to follow all the aspects of application development. For example, there is a wide range of monitor screens available in today's market. We must be careful to ensure our application looks good to the end-user by maintaining the application UI layout. In this article, we will go through some interesting and required points which we need to keep in mind while developing Windows Store applications.As a developer, I hope you understand what Layout is. The layout means the sizing and positioning of an application's objects and controls on the UI surface of our application. Applications usually consist of visual objects and controls to do something on it. Whenever we are thinking about layout then we must have at least one container control and inside that container control, we have some child objects/controls which built our application UI surface. As we know in the market there are various sizes of devices available. To provide a great application for the end-user we must ensure our application provides a great user experience for various devices. Since Microsoft has suggested multiple kinds of layouts we will see those layouts in the following.From word fixed it is clear that it is a fixed layout and cannot be resized according to the screen. If we are targeting an application with a fixed size, for example, games, then we can use this fixed layout. Applications with a fixed layout cannot adapt to the screen size. This layout is designed using fixed pixel sizes. In applications like games this layout is often used because in that kind of application there are maximum-sized images and they are also limited in other words we are not adding some extra content to the application.As the name indicates, dynamic/adaptive means if the screen size changes then the objects available in the UI are also resized automatically. For Windows Store applications we have such built-in controls provided by Visual Studio which have this mechanism by default. Whenever the application changes the screen size then the controls and objects (Grid, LIstview, etc.) are automatically adapted to that screen size.From the preceding discussion, I hope you are clear about the layout concept. Next, we will discuss what you should do when developing your Windows Store application.When you are developing your Windows Store application, take care of view state. View state refers to how your application will be displayed by the user on their devices. The user can act in three possible ways with your application. We will discuss those acts of the user.

The name only indicates your application occupies the entire screen; the following image shows the full state. (Images are taken from MSDN.).

Snapped View When your application stretches across a narrow region of the entire screen it will look as in the following image. When your application stretches across a narrow region of the entire screen it will look as in the following image.

Full-Screen View When your application does not occupy the remaining area, which is empty in the snapped state. The following image will clarify it for you. When your application does not occupy the remaining area, which is empty in the snapped state. The following image will clarify it for you.

While developing your Windows Store application we have to take care of those views. This depends on how the application is used; the user may run two applications side by side also. Landscape and portrait orientation As we say, Windows 8 comes with a new design and programming principals. Windows 8 applications can run on tablet devices as well as on your PCs. If your user is using your application on a tablet device or any other handy device then the user can rotate the device so it is your responsibility for your application to support both landscape and portrait orientations. While developing your Windows Store application we have to take care of those views. This depends on how the application is used; the user may run two applications side by side also.As we say, Windows 8 comes with a new design and programming principals. Windows 8 applications can run on tablet devices as well as on your PCs. If your user is using your application on a tablet device or any other handy device then the user can rotate the device so it is your responsibility for your application to support both landscape and portrait orientations.

Free Hand's Content Manipulation As above we discussed Windows Store applications can run on various sizes of devices as well as devices that support touch interaction with the user, then make your application provide content manipulation for the user as they need. As above we discussed Windows Store applications can run on various sizes of devices as well as devices that support touch interaction with the user, then make your application provide content manipulation for the user as they need.