Matthew Baxter-Reynolds - Programming Windows Store Apps with C#
Here you can read online Matthew Baxter-Reynolds - Programming Windows Store Apps with C# full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2014, publisher: OReilly Media, genre: Computer. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Romance novel
Science fiction
Adventure
Detective
Science
History
Home and family
Prose
Art
Politics
Computer
Non-fiction
Religion
Business
Children
Humor
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
- Book:Programming Windows Store Apps with C#
- Author:
- Publisher:OReilly Media
- Genre:
- Year:2014
- Rating:5 / 5
- Favourites:Add to favourites
- Your mark:
Programming Windows Store Apps with C#: summary, description and annotation
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Programming Windows Store Apps with C#" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
If youre a .NET developer looking to build tablet apps, this practical book takes you step-by-step through the process of developing apps for the Windows Store. Youll learn how to use Microsofts Modern UI design language with Windows 8.1 and WinRT 8.1.1 by building a line-of-business mobile app with C# through the course of the book.
To develop the app, youll work with the same system details and design specs that apply to retail apps, such as persistence, backend service, and Windows 8 features for sharing and search. Youll learn how to develop the code, incorporate third-party open source products, and package your app for the Windows Store.
- Build a UI with XAML and the Model/View/View-Model pattern
- Understand asynchronyand rediscover threads and parallelism
- Store data and system settings locally with SQLite
- Use app bars for commands and the settings charm for Help options
- Present notifications as tile updates, badges, or toast popups
- Help users visualize locations and tag activities to a map
- Enable apps to share data and run side-by-side in the UI
- Implement functionality for running tasks in the background
Matthew Baxter-Reynolds: author's other books
Who wrote Programming Windows Store Apps with C#? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.
Programming Windows Store Apps with C# — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work
Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Programming Windows Store Apps with C#" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.
Font size:
Interval:
Bookmark:
The computing industry is changing. PC sales are on the decline, and sales of post-PC devices (tablets and smartphones) are on the ascendancy. This change can be understood easily enoughcomputers are no longer something used for work, they are something used for life , and happily there is more to our society than just work.
The massive commercial success of post-PC devices suggests that this change works OK for most, but for companies like Microsoft it creates a big problem. The PC is not going to be as important over the next 20 years as it has been for the last 20 years. Windows 8.1 and Windows RT are Microsofts first move to try to address that problem by making the Windows operating system play more nicely in the tablet space.
Microsoft has done this by introducing a new user interface paradigm called Modern UI . This new user interface paradigm is monochronistic (one thing at a time), rather than the polychronistic (many things at a time) nature of a normal windowing operating system. It is also optimized for touch.
As well as providing a new user interface, Microsoft has introduced a new API, called Windows Runtime (WinRT), and a new execution and packaging model for the apps, called Windows Store apps . Well talk more about the actual construction of Windows Store apps in .
This book is designed to treat Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1.1 RT equallynothing we do in the book will exclude operation from either variant of the operating system. Similarly, everything we do can be used in apps that are distributed through the Windows Store.
Generally, we will be writing all the code ourselves, but from time to time we will be using third-party products. Virtually all of these are open sourcethere is only one exception, which is the Bing Maps component discussed in . Everything else is unrestricted.
So lets go! Well start by learning about the app that were going to build.
What Ive tried to do with writing this book is to tell a story that takes you, the reader, through the process of moving from .NET development over to Windows Store app development. There is a slight bias in the book in that Im assuming most developers have day jobs developing web applications and have been asked to look into development tablet apps that run on Microsofts tablet operating systems.
Some of you will also have done quite a bit of desktop development on Windows, particularly using Silverlight and/or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This book isnt a primer on developing XAML, although you will see and work with enough examples that use XAML to become proficient.
Ill also tell you a bit more about the app well be discussing so you can judge if this is the right book for you. The app has within it the common sorts of functionality that you find in line-of-business apps (LOB) generally. At the time of writing, the Windows tablet story is not established, so the elements that well go through are those that apply to real applications on Windows Mobile, Android, and iOS that Ive built over the past 10 years or so.
Although the application that well build is a LOB app, everything youll see and do in this book applies equally well to a normal retail app that you might sell in a business-to-consumer fashion.
As I mentioned, were going to build a line-of-business app, rather than a retail app. The way that I distinguish between these two is that in a retail app, the software vendor typically doesnt have a strong relationship with the end customer. In retail, the end customer finds the app through indirect recommendations and/or through the app store catalog. In a LOB app, proactive marketing and relationship-building activities look to tie a client and vendor together through some sort of commercial offering. Technically, however, there isnt a big difference between retail apps and LOB apps.
The specific example Im going to show you is a field service app. This type of app is a classic mobile working application. In field service you have a number of operatives whose operational control is within your remit. You send them out into the field to do somethingeither something specific (go here, fix this), or something reactive (e.g., someone patrols an area and reports back on problems).
The app we will build will be called StreetFoo, and its a blend of those last two examples. I have created a simple server that is hosted on AppHarbor that will serve as the backend service for the app. When the user logs in to the app, it will download a set of problem reports. Each report will be something that needs fixingthe sample data happens to show graffiti, but it could be anything. The concept of the app is that the user would then either fix the problem or could report new problems into the app. Updates to problems or new problems are then updated to the server.
Thats the basic functionality. There are additional things that well look at, such as capturing photos and location information, as well as all of the various special user experience features in Windows 8.1/Windows 8.1.1 RTsharing, snapped view, search, and so on.
Well start in Chapters with a primer designed to get you up and running in terms of moving from .NET into this new world.
Starts by explaining the break between .NET and associated technologies (specifically WPF) over to Windows Runtime (WinRT). Youll then build a basic user interface and implement a Model/View/View-Model (MVVM) pattern.
Walks you through making the UI you built in do somethingspecifically, calling up to the server to register a new user account. This chapter also has a detailed look at asynchrony probably the most important thing that you will learn during your time with Windows Store app development.
The remaining chapters in this book each focus on a specific API feature area.
Explores SQLite. The reason Ive brought up this topic so early in the book is that you cant build a practically useful application without having some sort of persistent store. Although you can store information on disk easily enough using the Windows Store APIs, SQLite is the de facto relational database used in mobile solutions, and so well use it in our app.
Introduces the first of the special Windows 8.1 user experience (UX) features: the app bar. App bars are the small panels that pop in from the top and bottom of the screen and provide access to options and tabs. (The app bar is essentially analogous to toolbars.) Well look at how to build an app bar and how to make up our own images for use on the buttons.
Discusses notifications. Notifications in Windows Store apps can be used to update the tile on the Start screen, add badges to the tile, and display toast (the notifications that wind in from the top-right side of the screen). Notifications can be created locally and shown locally, or alternatively, created on the server and pushed out to all connected devices using Windows Push Notification Services (WNS). In this chapter well look at both routes.
Looks in detail at working with files. To be honest, when I first planned this book I didnt intend to include a chapter on files, as this tends to be a topic well served by the community whenever a new platform is introduced. However, I ended up adding this chapter to handle images. Each report that we track in the app will have exactly one image. Rather than storing these images in SQLite, which is impractical, well store them on disk.
Focuses on the Windows 8.1 sharing feature. Sharing is one of the key differentiators between Microsofts tablet strategy and other platforms. Most platforms silo off apps and make it hard to share data. Windows 8.1 has a declarative model for sharing where apps indicate they can serve up certain types of data. That data can then be read in by another app that supports consumption of shared data. In this chapter well look at both sharing data from our app and consuming data from other apps.
Font size:
Interval:
Bookmark:
Similar books «Programming Windows Store Apps with C#»
Look at similar books to Programming Windows Store Apps with C#. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.
Discussion, reviews of the book Programming Windows Store Apps with C# and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.