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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)

Scanning a QR code

Do you use QR codes as a fast way of accessing websites? If so, it is really good news that you can add a QR code scanning feature directly in your application. In this recipe, you will learn how to do it using the additional library.

As an example, you will create a simple application that will launch the QR scanner. When the result is found, a new page will be opened and the result will be presented in the text block.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

To prepare an example that makes it possible to scan QR codes using a camera and the additional library, perform the following steps:

  1. Enable the Webcam capability by double-clicking on the Package.appxmanifest file in the Solution Explorer window, choosing the Capabilities tab, and checking the Webcam checkbox.
  2. Install the ZXing.Net.Mobile library using the NuGet Package Manager.
  3. Add a button to the page. Once a user clicks on it, the process of scanning...