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In this tutorial we are going to learn how to programmatically create an Application Bar at runtime in Windows Phone application development. Application Bar is a set of Icons that can be configured at the bottom of the application for each page or also we can configure it for multiple pages. These buttons can be used to navigate to frequently used pages across the application which enables users to navigate quickly and easily. To get a clear idea on using the Application Bar you can refer to the article “Working with Application Bar in WP7”. We can create Application Bar directly using the XAML code or using with C# code behind at run time programmatically. Let us see the steps on how to test our application which is based on the screen orientation in Windows Phone.