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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

Introduction


In the previous eight chapters, you learned a lot about the development of UWP applications, starting with creating a new project, adding pages, navigating between them, as well as running the application either with or without debugging. You also learned how to add controls to pages using the XAML language, apply styles, and localize the application. Then, the subject of using the MVVM design pattern, view models and binding, and storing data in files and a database have been introduced. You have already learned how to add animations, graphics, and multimedia to your application, as well as obtain data from various built-in sensors.

In the previous chapter, you learned how to support Internet-based scenarios, such as composing e-mail messages, opening websites, showing maps, or launching GPS-based navigation. So what's next? It is high time that we prepare an application for submission to the Windows Store and make it available to people all over the world!

In the current chapter...