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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 JSON file


The XML language is a very popular way of storing structured data. It is used not only locally, but also to integrate various solutions over the Internet, such as using the XML-based SOAP protocol (Simple Object Access Protocol). However, it is not the only way and the JSON format could be used instead. It provides developers with a different structure, which is also lighter, therefore more suitable for sending over mobile networks. In this recipe, you will learn how to write the JSON-formatted content to a file.

It is worth mentioning that serializing an object or a collection of objects into a JSON-encoded string is really simple due to the availability of the Newtonsoft.Json library. It provides you with the SerializeObject method that returns a string for an object, such as in the following line of code:

    string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(variable); 

As an example, you will create a simple application that will store data of employees in a JSON file. For...