UI Customization

The topics in this section will teach you how to customize the UI of your Syndicated Client Experiences (SCE) Reader including section fronts, articles, and layout.

• How To: Customizing Section Fronts
  A section front provides quick access to the rest of the content in the section. The section front can be highly customized to uniquely convey your brand and content.
• How To: Customizing the Appearance of Articles
  The SCE Reader Sample ships with several components that will help you display beautiful full-text articles. A handful of helper classes allow you to customize the appearance of articles for the most common scenarios with very little additional effort. In addition, the SCE Reader Sample furnishes you with several extensibility mechanisms that allow an even greater level of control over the appearance of your content.
• How To: Customizing Story Layout by Overriding ViewInsertionManager
  This document will walk you through the process of overriding ViewInsertionManager, which inserts non-text content into the document after the document completes its initial layout pass. Some of the more interesting scenarios involving ViewInsertionManager include adding videos and charts into the FlowDocument. This “How To” focuses on the simple scenario of making images larger.
• How To: Customizing the Section Front UI by Extending the Data Feed
  Developers frequently ask how to adapt the look and feel of section fronts based on the content of the feed. One approach is to use information contained in the data feed itself about which set of templates to use in order to display a particular section. This scenario is illustrated in this document, where we make use of various extensibility mechanisms in the SCE Reader.
• How To: Adding a Custom Item to the NavPanel
  Frequently, application authors wish to add functionality that does not directly map to the feed structure. This article will show you how to add a custom section to the NavPanel as well as create a custom DataTemplate to control the associated user experience.
• How To: Using Fonts with the SCE Starter Kit
  The SCE Starter Kit includes a Sample Font Pack with fonts which have been optimized for the WPF reading experience, and you can also include custom fonts in your application. This document includes a link to download the Sample Font Pack and provides information about licensing fonts, how to install fonts with your SCE application, what font formats are supported by the Starter Kit, and how to optimize the quality of fonts used in your application.