Windows Store apps for Absolute Beginners with C# (HD) - Channel 9
Summary: Ready to make money and share your great Windows 8 app ideas with the world? Not sure where to start? Start here! Over the course of 34 lessons, our friend Bob Tabor from www.LearnVisualStudio.net will teach you the fundamentals of Windows Store app development by walking you through building the Contoso Cookbook Hands On Labs. Bob provides plenty of commentary, insight and encouragement to help you understand the basics of page layout with XAML, binding to collections of data and working with the features of Windows 8 exposed through the Windows Runtime like the Search and Share charms, tiles and notifications, webcam and much, much more! By the end of this series, you should be well on your way to becoming the "next big thing". Download the entire series source code For more Absolute Beginner series click here.
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Bob reviews the topics discussed in this series of lessons, and provides some additional resources and guidance on how you should approach your career as a software developer. ResourcesWindows 8 UX Fundamentals Training Workshop 2012 Azure Mobile Services Bob's Website, LearnVisualStudio.NET Download the entire series' source code
Finally, we learn how to enable in-product purchases to unlock certain features or allow for the purchase of in-app items allowing us to use a "freemium" business model. Download the entire series' source code
Continuing on from the previous lesson, now we learn how to unlock the app and its features by allowing the user to purchase a full version of the app directly from the app. Download the entire series' source code
In this final Hands On Lab, we use the CurrentAppSimulator class to simulate interaction with the Windows Store API. Here we simply use the configuration file to declaratively modify the user interface. This simulates the data retrieved from the Windows Store. Download the entire series' source code
This lesson demonstrates the use of scheduled toasts to remind or notify the user of some task or change in the app. Download the entire series' source code
Continuing from the previous lesson, this lesson demonstrate how to utilize push notifications from Windows Notification Services to provide information or state updates to the user from the cloud on the Windows 8 start page. ResourcesAzure Mobile Services Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 Download the entire series' source code
The Windows 8 start page is one of it's most distinctive features, and this lesson demonstrates how to implement secondary tiles to allow "deep linking" into functionality or data in the app. Download the entire series' source code
In this lesson we follow the instructions of the Hands On Lab to tie up the loose ends and actually implement the desire functionality. Download the entire series' source code
In this lesson we use the ToggleSwitch element to capture a user's preference on how to deal with remembering the state of the app prior to it being terminated. We talk about the different special folders and objects we can use to save user data, and discuss roaming and how to utilize it in our app. Download the entire series' source code
In this lesson, we learn how to add Settings Flyouts using the Callisto controls. These are used to respond to the Settings charm in Windows 8, and can be used for About pages, Preferences or other related purposes. ResourcesGuidelines for app settings Download the entire series' source code
In this lesson, Bob explains how Windows 8 manages the resources of the computer in regards to our apps. We learn how to respond to Suspend notifications from Windows 8 so that we can store state or data information and restore it when the app is re-launched. Resources ApplicationExecutionState enumeration Supporting your app with background tasks Download the entire series' source code
In this lesson, we demonstrate how easy it is to record a video and share it directly from our app. Download the entire series' source code
In this lesson, we demonstrate how easy it is to take a photo and share it directly from our app. Download the entire series' source code
In this lesson we add an AppBar, and using the Callisto controls from Tim Heuer to provide a Flyout menu that displays when the user selects an AppBar icon. Bob demonstrates how to use NuGet to utilize the latest version of the open source toolkit in our app. ResourcesCallisto: A toolkit for XAML Metro style apps Download the entire series' source code
In this lesson, we learn how to respond to the user's request to search using the Search charm in Windows 8. We see all of the changes to our app that are automated by including a search results page template. We also demonstrate how to enable apps to provide spelling suggestions to items in our app as the user types in the search phrase. Download the entire series' source code
