CHAPTER 3

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Building a First Project

So far we’ve taken a look at installing the newest version of Visual Studio, a very exciting new release of what I believe is one of the best integrated development environments out there. We’ve also gotten a first taste at how it feels to develop and run a Windows Store app, so now it’s time to take that feeling to the next level. This chapter will show how to build a complete, good-looking application. We’ll add pages to the project and learn how to navigate to those pages and how to pass data between them. We’ll also have a look at Model View ViewModel (MVVM), think Model View Controller but for XAML, including ...

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