From the course: Developing UWP Apps: 2 Basic Controls and Patterns

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Common controls

Common controls

- [Instructor] When I say that everything a user interacts with in your app is a control, that's really no exaggeration. In fact in Universal Windows Platform development, even a page or a view is typically a control. So if you have a button, that's a control, a label, a text box, an auto suggestion box, an app bar, a dialog, progress bar, every single element of the experience from a user interface standpoint is a control, and all controls do one of two things. They display content or they enable interaction or both, and when I say display content, this doesn't always mean visually. A media element control, for example, would technically display audio. Now I know that sounds kind of strange to think about, but it's really important to maintain this understanding that everything displays content or enables interaction. Since the Universal Windows Platform comes with a ton of controls, almost 50 as I mentioned, it would be impossible really to cover all aspects of all controls in a…

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