Read on, but remember the Navigation View control. That said, there are plenty of things to learn in this article. Again, this blog article remains accurate, but a hand-made Hamburger Menu is no longer the suggested approach anymore. You can review my article on this control in MSDN Magazine: here.

Warning NUMBER 2! Since the release of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (2017), there is a native control giving developers a beautiful Hamburger Menu in their UWP apps.