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Windows Application Development Cookbook

By : Marcin Jamro
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Windows Application Development Cookbook

By: Marcin Jamro

Overview of this book

Need to ensure you can always create the best Windows apps regardless of platform? What you need are solutions to the biggest issues you can face, so you can always ensure you’re making the right choices and creating the best apps you can. The book starts with recipes that will help you set up the integrated development environment before you go ahead and design the user interface. You will learn how to use the MVVM design pattern together with data binding, as well as how to work with data in different file formats. Moving on, you will explore techniques to add animations and graphics to your application, and enable your solution to work with multimedia content. You will also see how to use sensors, such as an accelerometer and a compass, as well as obtain the current GPS location. You will make your application ready to work with Internet-based scenarios, such as composing e-mails or downloading files, before finally testing the project and submitting it to the Windows Store. By the end of the book, you will have a market-ready application compatible across different Windows devices, including smartphones, tablets, and desktops.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Windows Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Adding a textbox


Another task that is frequently performed in applications is entering different types of information, such as a first or last name, an e-mail address, or a phone number. You could easily allow a user to type a text using the TextBox control. In this recipe, you will learn how to place it on the page, modify its appearance, as well as handle events related to typing data within such a control.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you only need the automatically generated project.

How to do it...

To add a textbox and handle some of its events, perform the following steps:

  1. Place the TextBox control on the page and adjust its appearance by modifying the content of the MainPage.xaml file as follows:

            <Page (...)> 
                <Grid (...)> 
                    <TextBox 
                        PlaceholderText="Type a first name..." 
                        BorderBrush="#4a4a4a" 
                        BorderThickness="3" 
                    ...