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Windows Store App Development: C# and XAML
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Windows Store App Development: C# and XAML

by Pete Brown
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
624 pages
20h 56m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 19. A little UI work: user controls and Blend

This chapter covers

  • Creating a shape in Blend
  • Creating and using a UserControl
  • Creating dependency properties
  • Setting view states

In the previous chapter, we created a chat app with the understanding that it would be more game-like in subsequent chapters. The focus was on sockets networking in that chapter, so it made sense not to include graphics and other game functionality. But our app has a giant unused area to the right that’s just begging for us to fill it with something cool.

In this chapter, we’ll flesh out the game a bit more. Maybe “amusement” is a better term, because this game has no actual gameplay, just movement of elements onscreen in a multiplayer context. (Of course, ...

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