Building Windows 10 Applications with XAML and C# Unleashed

by Nathan, Adam

• ISBN13: 9780672337581
• ISBN10: 0672337584
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-09-01
• Publisher: Sams Publishing

Summary

Full Color: Figures and code appear as they do in Visual Studio.

Universal Windows apps are a total game-changer. You can now write once and deploy your app to any modern PC, tablet, phone, or other Windows device. Suddenly, it’s quick and easy to serve new devices and form factors, sharing unified assets ranging from code to styles to user controls. It has never been easier to reach multiple-device markets!

In this book, the world’s #1 expert on Microsoft XAML brings together all the knowledge Windows developers need to build universal apps that adapt smoothly for any device running Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1, or their successors. Drawing on his unsurpassed personal experience and direct input from Microsoft’s Windows and Visual Studio teams, Adam Nathan illuminates core development concepts, answers your most important questions, and candidly assesses the technology’s strengths and limitations.

This full-color guide walks you through every key task involved in building a universal Windows app: layout and input, working with the app model, using advanced controls, leveraging XAML’s powerful rich media features, and much more.

Detailed information on how to...

• Quickly build universal, localized apps that exploit the vast global scale of the Windows Store
• Size, position, and transform elements within layouts that gracefully adapt to different devices
• Handle input from touch, mouse, pen, keyboard, and any sensor
• Monetize apps with Windows Store sales, in-app purchases, and advertising
• Make the most of controls for managing content, items, text, images, media, speech, and more
• Create efficient 2D vector graphics and animations
• Use styles, templates, and visual states to redesign controls without losing functionality
• Bind data sources to simplify data presentation and updates
• Easily integrate data from apps, users, and networks
• Support Windows app commands: Search, Share, Print, Play, Project, Settings
• Use contracts to build apps that cooperate to perform complex tasks
• Improve the user experience even when your app isn’t running

Table of Contents

Introduction

 

Part I  Getting Started
1. Hello, Real World!
2. Mastering XAML

 

Part II  Building an App
3. Sizing, Positioning, and Transforming Elements
4. Layout
5. Handling Input: Touch, Mouse, Pen, and Keyboard

 

Part III  Working with the App Model
6. App Lifecycle
7. Threading, Windows, and Pages
8. The Many Ways to Earn Money

 

Part IV  Understanding Controls
9. Content Controls
10. Items Controls
11. Text
12. Images
13. Audio, Video, and Speech
14. Other Controls

 

Part V  Leveraging the Richness of XAML
15. Vector Graphics
16. Animation
17. Styles, Templates, and Visual States
18. Data Binding

 

Part VI  Exploiting Windows
19. Working with Data
20. Supporting App Commands
21. Leveraging Contracts
22. Reading from Sensors
23. Controlling Devices
24. Thinking Outside the App: Live Tiles, Notifications, and the Lock Screen

 

Part VII  Advanced Topics
25. Integrating DirectX
26. Custom Controls and Components
27. Layout