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Reusable SplitView pane?

I have created a simple SplitView and I'm wondering if I can reuse the code in my <SplitView.Pane>? It's pretty simple, just a few buttons, but I don't want to have to include the same code over and over again on my different pages.
Or is there a way to template the whole SplitView and just modify the <SplitView.Content>on every page? I'd prefer to be able to be able to have the button handlers be global too so that I don't have the same 3 buttons coded in each page .cs file.
What would be the best way to do this?
EDIT: This is for a UWP Windows 10 app.

You can use your own user control to reuse the content of splitview.pane.
UserControl class
Here is an example, my code.. 'FutaLocation' is my usercontrol.
<SplitView x:Name="Splitter" Grid.Row="1"
PanePlacement="Left"
DisplayMode="Inline"
OpenPaneLength="500"
PaneClosed="Splitter_PaneClosed"
PaneClosing="Splitter_PaneClosing"
>
<SplitView.Pane>
<futaviewcontrols:FutaLocation x:Name="futaLocation"/>
</SplitView.Pane>
<Pivot x:Name="directPivot"

If you can make a server control out of it, you can resuse and configure however you like. If this is not possible, you can make a code snippet and then place on page and alter as needed.

Is it possible to initialize a UserControl as a StaticResource to be used inside a ContentControl

I'm currently dipping my toes into writing Universal Apps for the windows platform, for one of my attempts I'd like to try and make a one of these snazzy new single page apps.
However, I'd like to re-use my code where possible so that I follow DRY principles and don't repeat any code that I don't need to.
As such, I've made a number of User controls (which all work fine on their own) and I'm attempting to embed them inside an Xaml ContentControl ultimately allowing me to swap different ContentControl objects in and out of view at run time.
So far, in my experiments, I have the following code:
XAML:
<ContentControl x:Name="CentralContextHost" Style="{StaticResource ContentControlStyle}">
<!-- The following tag is which ever user control I wish to host -->
<Universal:CentralHubControl/>
</ContentControl>
And the code behind I use to manipulate the above XAML:
public object CurrentControl; // field
if (CurrentControl == null)
CurrentControl = new Profile(); // another usercontrol
var tempswap = CentralContextHost.Content;
CentralContextHost.Content = CurrentControl;
CurrentControl = tempswap;
I would however like to try and make my code much cleaner by using something similar to the binding syntax I've seen used elsewhere by possibly creating my controls as static resources in a dictionary of some kind xaml object, then just dropping a similar deceleration to a bind in the correct position in my xaml to have them display as needed.
The problem I have is that I'm not really sure how to approach solving this problem, or if there is even a way that it can be solved. My idea is to be able to do something similar to the following fictitious bit of code.
<Universal:CentralHubControl x:Key="CentralHub" />
<Universal:Profile x:Key="PersonProfile" />
<ContentControl
x:Name="CentralContextHost"
Grid.RowSpan="2"
Content="{StaticResource CentralHub}"
Style="{StaticResource ContentControlStyle}">
This seems to work in blend but crashes badly when used at run time.
can anyone here see why that might be or what I might be doing wrong?
If you need any more info please ask in the comments and let me know, I'd love to find an answer to both questions here.

I've not played with an app that has everything in one page myself yet. If I did, perhaps I might suggest using a panel as your content host instead of a contentcontrol.
For example, if you were to have a Grid as the root of your layout, which by default it usually is. You can then add your user controls directly to the panel in the code behind by using the following line of code:
rootLayout.Children.Add(AnyUIElement).
Doing things this way may make it possible to create a new instance of the wanted user control and potentially maintain state for it.
For an MVVM style solution, I'll have to play around with the concept.
Is there a specific reason you need to use a contentcontrol that I may not have considered?

How to show a hyperlink in a text

I have a text which may contain some special characters like <b></b> or a link. I want the user to be able to click on the link and open it. TextBlock or RichTextBox seems doesn't show links in a proper way:
<RichTextBox >
<Paragraph>
click here: http://www.google.com
</Paragraph>
</RichTextBox>
How can I show a text like that in a page?
Update: seems my question isn't clear. I ask a server for content and it returns back to me something like this:
from <b><i><a href="http://www.google.com" rel=nofollow> lorem ipsom
NPR:

 tapped in front of you probably know Bill Gates...
I want to show this in a WINDOWS PHONE page. TextBlock doesn't render it well. how can I show it human readable?

The way to solve your problem I see in using of WebBrowser control.
Then, accordingly to the article, you should go with Javascript to manage the links clicking etc (unless you want the links would be opened automatically with standard logic of Windows Phone):
Script is disabled in the WebBrowser control by default. Set the
IsScriptEnabled property to true if you want to enable scripting in
your control. You can then call scripts using the InvokeScript method.
The ScriptNotify event occurs when JavaScript in the WebBrowser
control passes a string to managed code.
That's a bit tricky way, but if you want to go any other way, you would have to implement your own parser of the code and build the sentence with labels and custom hyperlinks (as in provided above suggestions from comments).

Navgation between XAML pages

I have a simple Silverlight application that consists of four pages (XAMLs).
Navigation is done by calling:
//from XamlPageA
this.Content = new XamlPageB();
Is this the right way. I need to have the entries in Browser history so that users can go page to the previous page(s). How can I do it.

You are bypassing the navigation system completely by setting content manually. You would have to implement updating the browser history yourself if you do it that way (certainly possible, but quite tedious).
A simpler approach is to generate a "Silverlight Business Application" project and see how the page navigation is simply handled with hyperlink buttons. All the browser history plumbing is done for you as is the mapping from URL to views.
e.g. A button with NavigateUri="/Home" will cause a view named Home.xaml to load into the navigation:Frame of the MainPage window.
if you look into the navigation:Frame element of MainPage.xaml, you will see a number of UriMapping entries like this:
<uriMapper:UriMapping Uri="" MappedUri="/Views/Home.xaml"/>
<uriMapper:UriMapping Uri="/{pageName}" MappedUri="/Views/{pageName}.xaml"/>
They provide the pattern matching to convert from URLs to views.
Hope this helps your project.

Open a new window with asp.net

Im new into that asp.net thing, but here goes.
I got at ImageButton, and when its clicked i want the image displayed in another window. If I can avoid using ajax i would like to do that.
If possible would like to make the window modal, but still avoid ajax, since Im not ready to mix more technolgies yet.

The existing answers with JavaScript are fine, but just to suggest an alternative - could you use a HyperLink (with an ImageUrl set so you still get an image) and set its Target property instead?

IMHO the best practice to show a picture is in the same page on the top of the content. I personally use Lightbox. You can find the documentation on their page, so it should be easy for you to integrate their JavaScript code.

Somewhat like this:
<asp:ImageButton ID="imbJoin" CssClass="btn-find" AlternateText="Find" ToolTip="Find" runat="server" ImageUrl="~/library/btn-find.gif" onClick="javascript:popUp("ServicesLocator.aspx")" />
Resource: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/.NET/ASP.NET/Q_22832169.html
Using the ImageButton you need to use a JavaScript to open it in a new window. You can also look into the OnClientClick-event

You can use the ImageButton's OnClientClick property:
<asp:ImageButton ... OnClientClick="javascript:window.open('url_to_image');" >
But this popup window will not be modal.

The following javascript will do what you're looking for:
window.open('page.html','WindowTitle','width=400,height=200')

It might be worth pointing to a two relevant entries in the excellent EFNet's #javascript FAQ:
Correct Use of Popups - yay accessibility!
How do I make a popup window the same size as my image?
How do I create a custom 'OK' dialog or something similar? - modal windows are not that useful and something like the suggested Lightbox or similar scripts would be better "modal" options
Correct Use of Links - this one being only partly on-topic but the previous answers use of the "javascript:" pseudo protocol made it necessary: it is never required nor useful in a web page that should work across browsers. After all, JavaScript is the default (and only) scripting language.

Thank you for all the answers! I ended up using lightbox
I found this example
http://neutrongenious.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/lightbox-for-asp-net-2-0/
And it works perfectly