December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
12h 42m
English
book
Professional Windows 8 Programming: Application Development with C# and XAML
by Nick Lecrenski, Doug Holland, Allen Sanders, Kevin Ashley
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Chapter 2
What Is XAML?
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
- The history of XAML
- Understanding XAML basics
- How XAML works in Visual Studio 2012
- Understanding the various Windows 8 controls
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You can develop Windows Store Apps in several different ways. Windows 8 enables you to use whatever programming language you may be the most familiar with to do your development. As stated in Chapter 1, “A Glimpse into the Future,” the WinRT API has been designed and built to work with HTML/JavaScript, XAML/VB.NET, XAML/C++, and XAML/C#. For the first time if you don’t have knowledge of Microsoft programming languages, you can still write apps for Windows 8 by making use of solely HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The API calls and User Interface controls used in Windows 8 development are available to all these language combinations with no major restrictions. This book focuses on development of Windows Store apps using XAML as the user interface language and C# for the application logic. This chapter offers a brief tutorial on XAML and how it is used to create dynamic user interfaces. The XAML language is a powerful markup language that you can use to create complex screens as well as fluid and dynamic Windows 8 user interfaces.
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