June 2008
Beginner
480 pages
9h 41m
English
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Chapter 14. Resources and Styles
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
Using static versus dynamic resources
Stylizing the Contact Manager
In Hours 12 and 13 we worked hard to build a solid application architecture. We decided to use an MVP pattern and we organized the solution structure appropriately. Using MVP or MVC is a good approach to building almost any UI, but there are other important issues that must be dealt with as well. As applications grow, they depend more and more on resources such as graphics and colors. Over the development of a solution, a common “look and feel” may be designed, or it may emerge on its own. In previous Windows technologies, these styles would likely be strewn across various classes, creating ...
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