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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)

Reading a structure of directories


After creating many folders, it may be necessary to get a list of them, together with subdirectories. Fortunately, it is possible to iterate through directories, as you will see in the current recipe.

As an example, you will modify the project from the previous recipe by adding a text block and an Iterate through directories button. After pressing it, a textual representation of the structure of directories is generated and presented in the text block.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you need the project from the previous recipe.

How to do it...

To create an example that gets a list of directories, as well as iterate through them, perform the following steps:

  1. Add the Iterate through directories button and the text block to the page by modifying the content of the MainPage.xaml file as follows:

            <Page (...)> 
                <StackPanel> (...) 
                    <Button  
                        Content="Iterate through directories" 
      ...