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WinRT: AppBar button values

WinRT gives you a lot of AppBar buttons out-of-the-box. These buttons can be found in the StandardStyles.xaml(don’t forget to comment them out if you want to use them) and are styled like this:

<Style x:Key="PreviousAppBarButtonStyle" TargetType="ButtonBase" BasedOn="{StaticResource AppBarButtonStyle}">
<Setter Property="AutomationProperties.AutomationId" Value="PreviousAppBarButton"/>
<Setter Property="AutomationProperties.Name" Value="Previous"/>
<Setter Property="Content" Value="&#xE112;"/>
</Style>

I wanted to create my own button and I was wondering where the value of the Content property(&#xE112) is coming from…

To find the related icon you’ll have to open the Character Map program & select the Segoe UI Symbol from the font list.

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If you click on a specific character you see the value that is used inside the Content property(without the &#x at the beginning).

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