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How do I implement a pop-up balloon in a Windows Store app using Bing Maps?

I have an application that shows information about a specific button placed on a map. So far, I have the information displayed as a message dialog. It is not very pleasant to look at and is not suitable as an information window. I am going to try and implement a popup that will show all the information, which should be simple enough since there is good information about it. My question is, how do I make it look chic, like the pop-up balloons that appear in the Windows Maps app, for example? The image shows what I mean. It seems that this kind of balloon is more difficult to find information.

Perhaps I am looking for the wrong thing.

Does anyone know if this is relatively easy? And any info on how to do it yourself?

popup balloon in windows maps image

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I was actually looking for something similar, ended up creating a UserControl. This is how mine looks like:

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And this is what the Xaml code looks like:

<Popup 
    x:Name="bingMapsFlyout" 
    IsLightDismissEnabled="True"
    >
        <Popup.ChildTransitions>
            <TransitionCollection>
                <PaneThemeTransition/>
            </TransitionCollection>
        </Popup.ChildTransitions>
        <Canvas 
        x:Name="contentFlyoutPanel" 
        Height="126" 
        Width="259"
        >
            <Rectangle HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="45.035" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="20.552" RenderTransformOrigin="0,1" UseLayoutRounding="False" d:LayoutRounding="Auto" Fill="#FF252525" Opacity="0.6" Canvas.Left="26.902" Canvas.Top="26.128">
                <Rectangle.Clip>
                    <RectangleGeometry Rect="20.761,-7.16,21.378,58.646">
                        <RectangleGeometry.Transform>
                            <CompositeTransform CenterY="-7.6496992111206055" CenterX="20.250661849975586" Rotation="-3.03122615814209" SkewX="-21.284000396728516"/>
                        </RectangleGeometry.Transform>
                    </RectangleGeometry>
                </Rectangle.Clip>
                <Rectangle.RenderTransform>
                    <CompositeTransform SkewX="21" Rotation="163.744"/>
                </Rectangle.RenderTransform>
            </Rectangle>
            <Rectangle HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="69" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="245" Fill="#FF2B2B2B" Canvas.Left="7" Canvas.Top="8"/>
            <StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="69" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="247" Canvas.Left="7" Canvas.Top="8">
                <TextBlock x:Name="txtLine1" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="18" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="227" Margin="10,10,0,0" Foreground="White" FontFamily="Arial" FontSize="16" FontWeight="Bold"/>
                <TextBlock x:Name="txtLine2" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="26" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="227" Margin="10,5,0,0" Foreground="White" FontFamily="Arial" FontSize="12" FontWeight="Bold"/>
            </StackPanel>
        </Canvas>
    </Popup>
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You will need to use the class PopupMenu



http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/windows.ui.popups.popupmenu.aspx

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