title: UWP Adding Extra Options to the NavigationView
body: <p>I have the following XAML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Page
      x:Class="Proto.MainPage"
      xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
      xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
      xmlns:local="using:Proto"
      xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
      xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
      mc:Ignorable="d"
      Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5"&gt;
      &lt;Grid&gt;
          &lt;NavigationView IsBackButtonVisible="Collapsed" CompactModeThresholdWidth="9999" ExpandedModeThresholdWidth="9999" CompactPaneLength="96"&gt;
              &lt;NavigationView.MenuItems&gt;
                  &lt;NavigationViewItem Name="1Item" Content="1" Tag="1Page" FontSize="22" HorizontalAlignment="Center" FontWeight="Bold" Foreground="MediumPurple"/&gt;
                  &lt;NavigationViewItem Name="2Item" Content="2" Tag="2Page" FontSize="22" HorizontalAlignment="Center" FontWeight="Bold" Foreground="MediumPurple"/&gt;
                  &lt;NavigationViewItem Name="3Item" Content="3" Tag="3Page" FontSize="22" HorizontalAlignment="Center" FontWeight="Bold" Foreground="MediumPurple"/&gt;
                  &lt;NavigationViewItem Name="4Item" Content="4" Tag="4Page" FontSize="22" HorizontalAlignment="Center" FontWeight="Bold" Foreground="MediumPurple"/&gt;
                  &lt;NavigationViewItem Name="5Item" Content="5" Tag="5Page" FontSize="22" HorizontalAlignment="Center" FontWeight="Bold" Foreground="MediumPurple"/&gt;
              &lt;/NavigationView.MenuItems&gt;
          &lt;/NavigationView&gt;
      &lt;/Grid&gt;
  &lt;/Page&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The C# is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>using System;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.IO;
  using System.Linq;
  using System.Runtime.InteropServices.WindowsRuntime;
  using Windows.Foundation;
  using Windows.Foundation.Collections;
  using Windows.UI.Xaml;
  using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;
  using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Primitives;
  using Windows.UI.Xaml.Data;
  using Windows.UI.Xaml.Input;
  using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media;
  using Windows.UI.Xaml.Navigation;
  
  // The Blank Page item template is documented at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=402352&amp;clcid=0x409
  
  namespace Proto
  {
      /// &lt;summary&gt;
      /// An empty page that can be used on its own or navigated to within a Frame.
      /// &lt;/summary&gt;
      public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
      {
          public MainPage()
          {
              this.InitializeComponent();
          }
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Its currently just numbers in the Navigation menu that im just experimenting with as i get used to UWP. Im targeting the latest build of Windows which seems to incorperate some nice extra features into UWP.</p>
  
  <p>Im wondering if its possible to add extra options, like more options above settings and Icons at the top etc to the Navigation view. An example would be like the image below:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Uo6aG.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Uo6aG.png" alt="The Current Layout"></a></p>
  
  <p>Thanks for the advice</p>