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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents at a Glance
Contents
Foreword
Preface
What This Book Is About
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. The New Windows Runtime
Looking Back: Win32 and .NET
Looking Forward: Rise of the NUI
Introducing the Windows Store Application
Windows 8 Tools of the Trade
Behind the Scenes of WinRT
WPF, Silverlight, and the Blue Stack
Summary
2. Getting Started
Setting Up Your Environment
Hello, Windows 8
The ImageHelper Application
Summary
3. Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
Declaring the UI
Data-Binding
Storyboards
Styles and Resources
Layout
Common Controls
Summary
4. Windows 8 Applications
Layouts and Views
Handling User Input
The Application Bar
Icons and Splash Screens
About Page
Sensors
Summary
5. Application Lifecycle
Process Lifetime Management
Connected and Alive
Custom Splash Screen
Summary
6. Data
Application Settings
Accessing and Saving Data
Collections
Web Content
Syndicated Content
Streams, Buffers, and Byte Arrays
Compressing Data
Encrypting and Signing Data
Web Services
Summary
7. Tiles and Toasts
Basic Tiles
Live Tiles
Badges
Secondary Tiles
Toast Notifications
Windows Notification Service
Summary
8. Giving Your Application Charm
Searching
Sharing
Settings
Summary
9. MVVM and Testing
UI Design Patterns
The Portable Class Library
Why Test?
Unit Tests
Summary
10. Packaging and Deploying
The Windows Store
Side-Loading
Summary
Index
Footnotes
Chapter 1
Chapter 8
Chapter 10
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