Book description
Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to building Windows 8 apps with .NET
Teach yourself how to build Windows 8 applications using Microsoft® .NET Framework 4.5 with Microsoft Visual C# 2012 or Visual Basic 2012—one step at a time. Ideal for those with intermediate to advanced .NET development skills, this tutorial provides practical, learn-by-doing exercises for creating apps that easily adapt to different screen sizes—including desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and slates. C# examples are presented in the text; Visual Basic code examples are available online only.
Discover how to:
- Build apps using Windows 8 design guidelines
- Explore the Windows 8 application architecture
- Apply tools and libraries from Visual Studio and the Windows 8 SDK
- Use XAML to create touch-optimized user interfaces
- Create apps that make use of device sensors
- Manage the Windows 8 application lifecycle
- Prepare your app for the Windows Store
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1. Introduction to Windows Store apps
- 2. Windows 8 UI style
- 3. My first Windows 8 app
- 4. Application lifecycle management
- 5. Introduction to the Windows Runtime
- 6. Windows Runtime APIs
- 7. Enhance the user experience
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8. Asynchronous patterns
- await and async keywords for asynchronous patterns
- Writing asynchronous methods
- Wait for an event asynchronously
- Handling exceptions in asynchronous code
- Cancel asynchronous operations
- Track operation progress
- Synchronization with multiple asynchronous calls
- Choose SynchronizationContext in libraries
- Summary
- Quick reference
- 9. Rethinking the UI for Windows 8 apps
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10. Architecting a Windows 8 app
- Application architecture in general
- Architectures for Windows 8 apps
- Implementing the data layer
- Implementing the communication layer using a SOAP service
- Implementing the communication layer using an OData service
- Consuming data from a Windows 8 app
- Implementing an app storage/cache
- SOAP security infrastructure
- OData security infrastructure
- Summary
- Quick reference
- A. About the Authors
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Build Windows 8 Apps with Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic Step by Step
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2013
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735666955
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