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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 (11 chapters)

Adding a button

When developing applications, you can use a set of predefined controls among which a button exists. It allows you to handle the event of pressing the button by a user. Of course, the appearance of the button can be easily adjusted, for instance, by choosing a proper background or border, as you will see in this recipe.

The button can present textual content. However, it can also be adjusted to the user's needs, for instance, by choosing a proper color or font size. This is not all, because the content shown on the button does not have to be only textual. For instance, you can prepare a button that presents an image instead of text, text over an image, or text located next to the small icon that visually informs about the operation. Such modifications are presented in the following part of this recipe as well.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

To add a button to the page and handle the Click...