Book description
Windows Store App Development introduces the Windows 8.x app model to readers familiar with traditional desktop development. You'll explore dozens of carefully crafted examples as you master Windows features, the Windows Runtime, and the best practices of app design. Along the way, you'll pick up tips for deploying apps, including selling through the Windows Store.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- About the Author
- About the Cover Illustration
- Chapter 1. Hello, Modern Windows
- Chapter 2. The Modern UI
- Chapter 3. The Windows Runtime and .NET
- Chapter 4. XAML
- Chapter 5. Layout
- Chapter 6. Panels
- Chapter 7. Brushes, graphics, styles, and resources
- Chapter 8. Displaying beautiful text
- Chapter 9. Controls, binding, and MVVM
- Chapter 10. View controls, Semantic Zoom, and navigation
- Chapter 11. The app bar
- Chapter 12. The splash screen, app tile, and notifications
- Chapter 13. View states
- Chapter 14. Contracts: playing nicely with others
- Chapter 15. Working with files
- Chapter 16. Asynchronous everywhere
- Chapter 17. Networking with SOAP and RESTful services
- Chapter 18. A chat app using sockets
- Chapter 19. A little UI work: user controls and Blend
- Chapter 20. Networking player location
- Chapter 21. Keyboards, mice, touch, accelerometers, and gamepads
- Chapter 22. App settings and suspend/resume
- Chapter 23. Deploying and selling your app
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: Windows Store App Development: C# and XAML
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617290947
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