Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Step by Step

Chapter 26. Displaying and searching for data in a Windows Store app

After completing the chapter, you will be able to:

• Implementing the Model-View-ViewModel pattern

• Displaying data by using data binding

• Creating a ViewModel

• Implementing the Search contract

Chapter 25 demonstrates how to design a user interface (UI) for a Microsoft Windows Store app that could adapt to the different device form factors, orientations, and views that a customer running your app might use. The app that is developed in that chapter is a simple one for displaying and editing the details of customers.

In this chapter, you will see how to display data in the UI and the features that Microsoft Windows 8.1 provides with which you can search for data in an app. In performing ...