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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

Writing a binary file


In the case of storing huge amounts of data, using XML-formatted or JSON-formatted string values may not be sufficient. For this reason, in this recipe, you will learn how to define you own binary format and store bigger amount of data within binary files.

As an example, you will prepare an application that will simulate the experiment. After you press the Start experiment button, the operation of generating a random value will be repeated 100,000 times. For each one of them, a value will be added to the collection of results, together with a period of time in milliseconds that elapsed since the beginning of the experiment. At the end, the minimum, maximum, and average values will be calculated and presented. The window of the application is shown in the following image:

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

To prepare an example that saves data in a custom format within a binary file, perform the...