Windows Application Development Cookbook

Marcin Jamro

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781786467720
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Desktop Applications
• Index: Computer Science

Discover over 125 solution-based recipes to help you build applications for smartphones, tablets, and desktops

About This Book

• Learn to build applications for Windows 10, the latest Windows version
• Develop your applications to be compatible with smartphones, tablets, and desktops
• This guide is packed with recipes covering major solutions to day-to-day problems faced by Windows programmers

Who This Book Is For

The book is dedicated to programmers with various experience of developing applications for Windows-based smartphones, tablets, and desktops—even beginners can find suitable content.

What You Will Learn

• Start developing universal applications for Windows 10
• Design user interface in the XAML language
• Use the MVVM design pattern with data binding
• Store data in files and in a database
• Use multimedia content and animations
• Capture data from built-in sensors
• Handle various Internet-based scenarios
• Test the application and submit it to the Windows Store

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

This quick-start book takes a cookbook format with recipes covering more than 125 solutions to help you create and build applications for Windows 10. The examples presented in the book use the free integrated development environment. A supporting set of codes that present solutions to problems described in particular chapters is available as well.

Windows Application Development Cookbook

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Windows Application Development Cookbook

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Credits

Author Marcin Jamro	Copy Editors Gladson Monteiro Muktikant Garimella
Reviewer Melania Andrisan	Project Coordinator Izzat Contractor
Commissioning Editor Kunal Parikh	Proofreader Safis Editing
Acquisition Editor Chaitanya Nair	Indexer Rekha Nair
Content Development Editor Rohit Singh	Graphics Jason Monteiro
Technical Editor Pratish Shetty	Production Coordinator Shraddha Falebhai

About the Author

Marcin Jamro, PhD, is an entrepreneur and researcher as well as a developer and architect of various kinds of application, such as web, mobile, and distributed ones. He is interested in many aspects of computer science, including software engineering and project management. Marcin is passionate about C#, C++, and C languages in general, design patterns, new technologies, and mobile devices, especially the Windows platform.

He has significant practical experience in project development and holds the position of the President of the Board at TITUTO Sp. z o.o. [Ltd.] in Rzeszów, Poland. His company develops various IT projects, including mobile and web applications. To add to this, TITUTO Sp. z o.o. [Ltd.] has a set of its own products dedicated to hotels and tour operators. You can read more about them at http://tituto.com.

Marcin has published several papers, taken part in many conferences, organized a few of them, and participated in two internships at Microsoft in Redmond, USA. He has Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, and Microsoft Certified Professional Developer certificates.

You can find out more about Marcin on his website, http://jamro.biz, and you can easily contact him by sending an e-mail to [email protected].

Acknowledgements

I would like to dedicate this book to my parents – Dorota and Jozef.

Of course, I cannot forget the employees at Packt for their support while writing this book. I would like to thank the reviewer for her valuable feedback regarding the content and for pointing out the topics that required additional clarification or modification. Last but not least, I would really want to thank you for reading this book. I hope that you will enjoy it and it will become a source of useful knowledge when developing applications for various platforms with the Windows 10 operating system.

About the Reviewer

Melania Andrisan was interested in technology from an early age, so pursuing computer science was a natural fit for her. During college in Timisoara, she was involved in a lot of Microsoft-related community events, discussing topics such as WPF, Silverlight, and ASP.NET. Her involvement continued after joining the Haufe Group as she talked at various national and international developer conferences about Microsoft-related technologies. For Haufe Group, Melania is part of Haufe Group's CTO office as a Cross Domain Solution Architect and she has architected several of their internal and consumer-facing projects. At the moment, she is a proud mother of a little girl, but she's eager to get back to work soon.

You can find out more about Melania on her website, http://mela.ro or on Twitter at @melaniadanciu.

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Preface

Nowadays, there are various types of devices available on the market, such as smartphones, tablets, and desktops. You can...

Table of contents

• Windows Application Development Cookbook