Windows Phone 7 Quick Tip #1 – Use App.Resources for your Application Title

On most screens within your Windows Phone 7 application you might need to display your application name.  This might be in a simple page or one that contains a Pivot or Panorama.

Standard Page

Pivot Page

Panorama Page

With the XAML that gets generated you can enter your application name for the respective page types as:

 

Notice how the same text is entered for each title as a string literal?

A better solution is to use a string resource.  To create a string resource, add the following to your Application.Resources node within the App.xaml file.

Then everywhere you need to use your application name you can use the following syntax

-twb