Creating the ArticleItem

The app will eventually display a list of articles where each article will be rendered using a reusable component. We will call this reusable component ArticleItem. In Xamarin.Forms, a reusable component is called a ContentView. Please don't confuse this with an MVVM View, which is represented by a page in Xamarin.Forms. We know that this is confusing, but the rule is that a Xamarin.Forms page is an MVVM View and a Xamarin.Forms Content View is essentially a reusable control.

That said, let's create the ArticleItem class, as follows:

1. In the News project, right-click the Views folder, select Add, and then click New Item... .
2. Under the Visual C# Items node on the left, select Xamarin.Forms.
3. IMPORTANT: Make sure that you select the Content View template in the next step and NOT the Content Page template.
4. Select Content View (important, remember?) and name it ArticleItem. 
5. Click Add to create the view.

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