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Windows Application Development Cookbook

Windows Application Development Cookbook

By : Marcin Jamro
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Windows Application Development Cookbook

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.
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Reading NFC tags

Have you ever thought about the proximity features available in some applications that allow, for example, using a phone as a loyalty card? Have you ever seen NFC tags available in various forms, such as stickers? If so, you can ask yourself a quite simple question: Can I use them to perform some operations in an automatic way, just after touching such a tag with a smartphone? The answer is really simple: yes. What is more, the development of such a feature is convenient due to the availability of a set of classes, as you will see in this recipe.

As an example, you will create an application that allows opening a website after reading an NFC tag by touching it with a phone. Of course, the website address will be stored in the NFC tag. Thus, you can create a collection of favorite websites as stickers and open websites directly in your application, just by touching tags!

Getting ready

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

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