Question: Fully disabling the Compact mode of NavigationView

Is it possible to completely disable the NavigationView’s Compact display mode? When I set the NavigationView PaneDisplayMode to Left, tapping the toggle button turns the pane into compact mode, instead of completely collapsing it.

[MartinZikmund]

@mdtauk I would prefer to keep the NavigationView as it really has a lot of features out of the box. So far the solution that sounds doable would be to hide the toggle button, add my own above the NavigationView and then toggle IsPaneVisible instead of IsPaneOpen. But it would be nice if the control supported this out of the box somehow. I have a feeling it was possible with the Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.NavigationView although I didn’t test it now.

[chingucoding]

Do VisualStyleSetters still have breakpoints as the window resizes, even with the ToggleButton not visible @chingucoding ?

If you are using auto, yes NavigationView would still listen to that, the logic ignores whether there is a splitbutton or not from what it looks like. Btw, the “Auto” behavior is actually done in code behind (as we are not listening to window size but rather the NavigationViews size).

@chingucoding This is possible, but that prevents the user from making the content “full screen” which I would like to support. What I want is similar to LeftMinimal but with the difference that in open state the pane would be “inline”, not overlay

I’m afraid there is no such option right now. As @mdtauk suggested, SplitView is a good alternative in that case. Another way would be to retemplate and have the “compact” state collapse completely instead of being a narrow strip. I would probably try to go for the retemplate approach unless you only need a very basic navigation that would be easy to do (few buttons, no settings or search etc).