Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript

Foreword by Chris Anderson xvii Foreword by Rey Bango xix Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxvii About the Authors xxxiii Chapter 1: Hello, Windows 8! 1 Your First Windows Store App 2 Getting Started in Visual Studio 2012 6 Controls, Binding, and Styling in Blend 16 Navigation 24 Networking in WinJS and WinRT 29 Split App Template 34 The Rest 40 Where Are We? 40 Chapter 2: Binding and Controls 41 Binding 41 Initializers 51 Binding List 53 Sorting and Filtering 55 Grouping 58 Templates 60 Controls 63 Where Are We? 78 Chapter 3: Layout 79 Layouts: Taming the Device Matrix 79 Using CSS Layout Capabilities to Adapt Your App 99 Creating Adaptive UIs with CSS and WinJS 104 Where Are We? 116 Chapter 4: Typography 119 Typography in Windows Store Apps 119 Working with Platform Iconography 136 Using and Manipulating Icon Fonts in a Windows Store App 147 Where Are We? 153 Chapter 5: Media 155 Working with Audio and Video 155 Getting Started with Media in Windows 8 156 Styling Media and Creating Custom Controls 159 Adding Subtitles to Video 163 Adding Video Effects 167 Working with Audio in Windows Store Apps 170 Working with User Media Libraries via a File Picker 175 Selecting Multiple Files 180 Other File Picker Types 182 Working with Captured Media 185 Making Your App Connectable with Play To 189 Where Are We? 192 Chapter 6: Drawing and Animation 193 HTML5 Graphics with SVG and Canvas 193 Manipulating Pixels 206 Animation in Windows Store Apps 212 Where Are We? 224 Chapter 7: App State 225 Settings 226 Lifetime 238 Files 252 Libraries 256 Where Are We? 266 Chapter 8: Networking 267 Network Capabilities 267 Mobile Networking 269 XMLHttpRequest 273 Syndication 277 Background Data Transfer 280 Web Content 284 Where Are We? 292 Chapter 9: Shell Contracts 293 The Windows 8 Shell 294 Contracts 295 Search Contract 297 Share Contract 305 Contacts Contract 322 Debugging Contract Providers 331 Where Are We? 332 Chapter 10: Shell Integration 333 Live Tiles 333 Badges 348 Background Tasks

Chris Sells is the VP of the Developer Tools Division at Telerik. He's written several books, including Programming WPF, Windows Forms 2.0 Programming, and ATL Internals. In his free time, Chris makes a pest of himself on Microsoft forums and mailing lists. More information about Chris and his various projects is available at http://www.sellsbrothers.com. Brandon Satrom (@BrandonSatrom) is Program Manager for Kendo UI at Telerik and is based in Austin, Texas. A longtime web developer, Brandon loves to talk about HTML, JavaScript, CSS, open source, and whatever new shiny tool or technology has distracted him from that other thing he was working on. Brandon speaks at events all around the world, and he loves hanging out with and learning from other passionate developers, both online and in person. He also loves writing and has had several articles featured in publications like MSDN Magazine, The Architecture Journal, and .net magazine. Brandon can be reached online at his blog http://www.UserInExperience.com. Don Box is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. At Microsoft, Don has worked on platform and developer technologies for .NET, SQL, and most recently, Xbox. Prior to Microsoft, Don roamed the earth helping developers come to terms with COM, Including writing Essential COM for Addison-Wesley.

"This is going to be the Windows 8 app book YOU MUST have in your library! It's well written and expertly covers every aspect of how to build an HTML/JS app for Windows 8!" -Jonathan Antoine, Infinite Square and Microsoft MVP "Great introduction to app development for Windows 8. After so many years in the XAML space, this book made me want to consider the JavaScript/HTML route." -Shawn Wildermuth, Microsoft MVP (Data), author, trainer, and speaker, www.wilderminds.com "What you hold in your hands right now is an excellent walkthrough of how to build, ship, and profit from building apps using HTML and JavaScript for Windows 8. While I've been working on Windows 8 for the last two years, I can honestly say that I have learned about new parts of the platform from this book and can't wait to build an app that uses them." -From the Foreword by Chris Anderson, Distinguished Engineer, Windows Libraries for JavaScript, Microsoft Corp. "Chris and Brandon have gone to the heart of Windows 8 programming and produced a clear, concise, and easily understood tutorial that should be on every Windows 8 programmer's bookshelf. If you are programming Windows 8 with HTML and JavaScript, this is the book you need." -Jesse Liberty, Windows 8 technical evangelist, Telerik "I feel that this book will be the must-read reference for anyone who is dedicated to building a great Windows 8 app, and will be the book by which all others are compared. Yes, that's a pretty bold statement, but considering that both of the authors have been deeply involved in Windows 8 app development for a LONG time, especially while they were at Microsoft, I feel confident in that statement." -From the Foreword by Rey Bango, Developer Relations, Microsoft Corp. "This is easily the most well-written book on building Windows 8 apps with JavaScript that I have read. It has been an invaluable resource for helping me to transfer my experience with building large JavaScript applications and thick-client applications into