Building Windows 8 Apps with C sharp and XAML

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

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.