Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML - Jeremy Likness, John Montgomery

Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML

Buch | Softcover
384 Seiten
2012
Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-321-82216-1 (ISBN)
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“Jeremy builds real apps for real customers. That’s why I can heartily recommend this book. Go out and write some great apps…and keep this book handy.”
—From the Foreword by Jeff Prosise

Build Exceptionally Immersive and Responsive Touch-Based Windows Store Apps for Windows 8 with C# and XAML

This is the first practical guide to building breakthrough applications for Windows 8 from project templates through publication to the new Windows Store. Microsoft “MVP of the Year” Jeremy Likness helps you combine your existing developer skills with new Visual Studio 2012 tools and best practices to create apps that are intuitive and innovative. His guidance and insight will help you dive into Windows 8 development—and gain a powerful competitive advantage for years to come.

Likness illuminates the entire apps lifecycle, from planning and Model-View-View Model (MVVM) based design through coding, testing, packaging, and deployment. He covers both business and consumer apps, showing how Windows 8/WinRT development builds upon and contrasts with older WPF and Silverlight approaches.

Using carefully crafted downloadable code examples and sample projects, Likness shows how to make the most of new platform features, including integrated social networking, search, contracts, charms, and tiles. Throughout, he addresses crucial development challenges that have only been discussed on MSDN, blog posts, and Twitter feeds—and never with this depth and clarity before.

Coverage includes
• Mastering real-world Windows 8 development for all devices and form factors • Understanding the new WinRT framework and the unique characteristics of Windows 8 apps
• Designing apps that are faster, more responsive, do more with less, and maximize battery life
• Creating exceptionally fluid interfaces with VS 2012 templates, built-in animations, and XAML
• Building apps that respond consistently to multiple forms of input, including complex touch manipulations
• Using contracts and charms to expose services or enable users to do so
• Providing information to users through Live Tiles even when your app isn’t running
• Connecting your app seamlessly to multiple data sources, including social networks and cloud storage
• Syndicating rich, network-based content
• Using Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
• Securing Windows 8 apps through authentication and authorization
• Efficiently testing, debugging, packaging, and deploying apps

Jeremy Likness is a principal consultant at Wintellect, LLC. He has worked with enterprise applications for more than 20 years, 15 of those focused on web-based applications using the Microsoft stack. An early adopter of Silverlight 3.0, he worked on countless enterprise Silverlight solutions, including the back-end health monitoring system for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and Microsoft’s own social network monitoring product called “Looking Glass.” He is both a consultant and project manager at Wintellect and works closely with Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft. He is a three-year Microsoft MVP and was declared MVP of the Year in 2010. He has also received Microsoft’s Community Contributor award for his work with Silverlight. Jeremy is the author of Designing Silverlight Business Applications: Best Practices for Using Silverlight Effectively in the Enterprise (Addison-Wesley). Jeremy regularly speaks, contributes articles, and blogs on topics of interest to the Microsoft developer community. His blog can be found at http://csharperimage.jeremylikness.com.

   Foreword   xv
   Preface   xix
Chapter 1  The New Windows Runtime   1
Looking Back: Win32 and .NET   2
Looking Forward: Rise of the NUI   8
Introducing the Windows Store Application   12
   Windows 8 Design   14
   Fast and Fluid   15
   Snap and Scale   15
   Use of Right Contracts   16
   Great Tiles   17
   Connected and Alive   19
   Embrace Windows 8 Design Principles   19
Windows 8 Tools of the Trade   19
   Blend for Visual Studio   20
   HTML5 and JavaScript   21
   C++ and XAML   23
   VB/C# and XAML   24
Behind the Scenes of WinRT   25
WPF, Silverlight, and the Blue Stack   26
Summary   28
Chapter 2  Getting Started   29
Setting Up Your Environment   30
   Windows 8   30
   Visual Studio 2012   35
   Blend   36
Hello, Windows 8   37
   Creating Your First Windows 8 Application   37
   Templates   37
The ImageHelper Application   42
   Under the Covers   53
Summary   60
Chapter 3  Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)   61
Declaring the UI   62
   The Visual Tree   64
   Dependency Properties   67
   Attached Properties   70
Data-Binding   73
   Value Converters   78
Storyboards   80
Styles and Resources   85
Layout   88
   Canvas   88
   Grid   89
   StackPanel   91
   VirtualizingPanel and VirtualizingStackPanel   93
   WrapGrid   94
   VariableSizedWrapGrid   96
   ContentControl   97
   ItemsControl   99
   ScrollViewer   99
   ViewBox   100
   GridView   102
   ListView   105
   FlipView   106
   ListBox   106
Common Controls   107
Summary   109
Chapter 4  Windows 8 Applications   111
Layouts and Views   111
   The Simulator   112
   The Visual State Manager   115
   Semantic Zoom   119
Handling User Input   122
   Pointer Events   124
   Manipulation Events   126
   Mouse Support   128
   Keyboard Support   129
   Visual Feedback   131
   Targeting   132
   Context Menus   134
The Application Bar   136
Icons and Splash Screens   143
About Page   145
Sensors   148
   Accelerometer   149
   Compass   149
   Geolocation   150
   Gyrometer   151
   Inclinometer   151
   Light Sensor   152
   Orientation Sensor   153
Summary   154
Chapter 5  Application Lifecycle   157
Process Lifetime Management   160
   Activation   161
   Suspension   163
   Termination   166
   Resume   166
   Navigation   168
   Application Data API   172
Connected and Alive   176
Custom Splash Screen   177
Summary   179
Chapter 6  Data   181
Application Settings   181
Accessing and Saving Data   183
   The Need for Speed and Threading   189
   Understanding async and await   191
   Lambda Expressions   194
   IO Helpers   195
   Embedded Resources   196
Collections   199
   Language Integrated Query (LINQ)   200
Web Content   203
Syndicated Content   205
Streams, Buffers, and Byte Arrays   207
Compressing Data   208
Encrypting and Signing Data   211
Web Services   214
   OData Support   217
Summary   219
Chapter 7  Tiles and Toasts   221
Basic Tiles   221
Live Tiles   222
Badges   229
Secondary Tiles   231
Toast Notifications   236
Windows Notification Service   242
Summary   250
Chapter 8  Giving Your Application Charm   253
Searching   256
Sharing   266
   Sourcing Content for Sharing   267
   Receiving Content as a Share Target   274
Settings   280
Summary   283
Chapter 9  MVVM and Testing   285
UI Design Patterns   286
   The Model   292
   The View   293
   The View Model   295
The Portable Class Library   296
Why Test?   301
   Testing Eliminates Assumptions   302
   Testing Kills Bugs at the Source   302
   Testing Helps Document Code   303
   Testing Makes Extending and Maintaining Applications Easier   304
   Testing Improves Architecture and Design   305
   Testing Makes Better Developers   305
   Conclusion: Write Those Unit Tests!   306
Unit Tests   306
   Windows Store Unit Testing Framework   307
   Mocks and Stubs   311
Summary   315
Chapter 10  Packaging and Deploying   317
The Windows Store   317
   Discovery   318
   Reach   322
   Business Models   323
   Advertising   328
   Preparing Your App for the Store   329
   The Process   331
   The App Certification Kit   332
   What to Expect   335
Side-Loading   337
Summary   339
Index   341





 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.11.2012
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 180 x 230 mm
Gewicht 610 g
Themenwelt Informatik Betriebssysteme / Server Windows
Informatik Software Entwicklung Mobile- / App-Entwicklung
Informatik Weitere Themen Smartphones / Tablets
ISBN-10 0-321-82216-1 / 0321822161
ISBN-13 978-0-321-82216-1 / 9780321822161
Zustand Neuware
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