Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML

656 Pages·2012·25.78 MB·English

by  Jeremy Likness

Building Windows 8 Apps with C#
and XAML
Jeremy Likness
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Contents at a Glance
Foreword
Preface
1 The New Windows Runtime
2 Getting Started
3 Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
4 Windows 8 Applications
5 Application Lifecycle
6 Data
7 Tiles and Toasts
8 Giving Your Application Charm
9 MVVM and Testing
10 Packaging and Deploying
Index
Contents
Foreword
Preface
1 The New Windows Runtime
Looking Back: Win32 and .NET
Looking Forward: Rise of the NUI
Introducing the Windows Store Application
Windows 8 Design
Fast and Fluid
Snap and Scale
Use of Right Contracts
Great Tiles
Connected and Alive
Embrace Windows 8 Design Principles
Windows 8 Tools of the Trade
Blend for Visual Studio
HTML5 and JavaScript
C++ and XAML
VB/C# and XAML
Behind the Scenes of WinRT
WPF, Silverlight, and the Blue Stack
Summary
Works Cited
2 Getting Started
Setting Up Your Environment
Windows 8
Visual Studio 2012
Blend
Hello, Windows 8
Creating Your First Windows 8 Application
Templates
The ImageHelper Application
Under the Covers
Summary
3 Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
Declaring the UI
The Visual Tree
Dependency Properties
Attached Properties
Data-Binding
Value Converters
Storyboards
Styles and Resources
Layout
Canvas
Grid
StackPanel
VirtualizingPanel and VirtualizingStackPanel
WrapGrid
VariableSizedWrapGrid
ContentControl
ItemsControl
ScrollViewer
ViewBox
GridView
ListView
FlipView
ListBox
Common Controls
Summary