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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 controls programmatically


You have learned how to use the XAML language to place controls on the page and configure them. However, it does not mean that controls must only be created in a declarative way using XAML. In this recipe, you will learn how to create a button and add it to the Grid control programmatically, using the C# language.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

To add a button and adjust its appearance programmatically, perform the following steps:

  1. Specify the name of the Grid control by modifying the content of the MainPage.xaml file as follows:

            <Page (...)> 
                <Grid 
                    Name="Grid" 
                    Background="{ThemeResource  
                        ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}"> 
                </Grid> 
            </Page> 
    

  2. Create and configure a new button and add it to the Grid control by modifying the constructor...