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    copied!<p>You are on the right track. <code>WrapPanel</code> is the way to go :)</p> <p>To make each block more interesting, you can take a look at the <a href="http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/articles/Windows-Phone-HubTile-in-depth-Part1-key-concepts-and-API" rel="noreferrer">HubTile</a> control from the latest <a href="http://phone.codeplex.com/" rel="noreferrer">windows phone toolkit</a>. Whatever controls/panels you are using, just remember the size should be 173*173.</p> <p><strong>Use a ListBox</strong></p> <p>In one of my projects I created a <code>ListBox</code> that does all this. The reason that I use a <code>ListBox</code> is because <code>ListBox</code> has a <code>SelectedItem</code> propery which tells me which tile is tapped by the user. Also another reason is <code>ListBoxItems</code> can receive the nice tilt effect.</p> <p>Baiscally you just need to create a tile-like <code>ListBoxItem</code> style and apply it to the <code>ListBox</code>'s <code>ItemContainerStyle</code>, also you need to set the <code>ListBox</code>'s <code>ItemsPanel</code> to be a <code>WrapPanel</code>.</p> <p><strong>How it looks</strong></p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IfjYK.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p><strong>The ListBoxItem Style</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;Style x:Key="TileListBoxItemStyle" TargetType="ListBoxItem"&gt; &lt;Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch"/&gt; &lt;Setter Property="VerticalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch"/&gt; &lt;Setter Property="Padding" Value="0"/&gt; &lt;Setter Property="FontSize" Value="64"/&gt; &lt;Setter Property="Margin" Value="12,12,0,0"/&gt; &lt;Setter Property="Background" Value="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}"/&gt; &lt;Setter Property="Foreground" Value="White"/&gt; &lt;Setter Property="Width" Value="173"/&gt; &lt;Setter Property="Height" Value="173"/&gt; &lt;Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Left"/&gt; &lt;Setter Property="Template"&gt; &lt;Setter.Value&gt; &lt;ControlTemplate TargetType="ListBoxItem"&gt; &lt;Grid&gt; &lt;Rectangle Fill="{TemplateBinding Background}"/&gt; &lt;ContentPresenter HorizontalAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalContentAlignment}" VerticalAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalContentAlignment}"/&gt; &lt;/Grid&gt; &lt;/ControlTemplate&gt; &lt;/Setter.Value&gt; &lt;/Setter&gt; &lt;/Style&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>The ListBox</strong></p> <pre><code> &lt;!-- set its ItemContainerStyle which is the style for each ListBoxItem --&gt; &lt;ListBox ItemContainerStyle="{StaticResource TileListBoxItemStyle}"&gt; &lt;!-- set its ItemsPanel to be a WrapPanel --&gt; &lt;ListBox.ItemsPanel&gt; &lt;ItemsPanelTemplate&gt; &lt;toolkit:WrapPanel /&gt; &lt;/ItemsPanelTemplate&gt; &lt;/ListBox.ItemsPanel&gt; &lt;ListBoxItem&gt; &lt;Grid&gt; &lt;TextBlock Text="Messages" /&gt; &lt;StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center"&gt; &lt;Path Data="M1.4901163E-05,9.8579922 L50.000015,46.316994 L100.00002,9.8579922 L100.00002,62.499992 L1.4901163E-05,62.499992 z M0,0 L100,0 L50,36.458 z" Fill="White" Height="38.125" Stretch="Fill" UseLayoutRounding="False" Width="61" d:IsLocked="True" /&gt; &lt;TextBlock Text="12" Margin="4,0,0,8" /&gt; &lt;/StackPanel&gt; &lt;/Grid&gt; &lt;/ListBoxItem&gt; &lt;ListBoxItem/&gt; &lt;ListBoxItem/&gt; &lt;ListBoxItem/&gt; &lt;toolkit:HubTile Title="Me ☺" Message="..." Notification="new messages!" Source="xxx.jpg" Margin="12,12,0,0" /&gt; &lt;/ListBox&gt; </code></pre> <p>You can see the last item is actually a <code>HubTile</code>.</p> <p>Hope ths helps! :)</p>
 

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