Introduction to Building Windows 8 Applications
This course covers everything you need to know to get started building Windows 8 apps.
What you'll learn
Windows 8 apps provide a new opportunity for developers to interact with users and provide a more immersive experience on the desktop or on touch devices. This course covers fundamentals you need to know to get started building Windows 8 apps quickly using Visual Studio 2012. Topics covered include an overview of Windows 8 app features as well as key features that you need to know to build HTML/JavaScript or XAML/C# apps.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Windows 8 App Framework 2m
- Windows 8 App Framework Demo 2m
- Development Choices 3m
- App Lifecycle 3m
- App Lifecycle Demo 1m
- Controls 3m
- Controls Demo 5m
- Visual Studio Templates 1m
- Visual Studio HTML/JavaScript Templates Demo 4m
- Visual Studio XAML Templates Demo 12m
- Hello World Intro 0m
- Hello World HTML/JavaScript Demo 7m
- Hello World XAML/C# Demo 7m
- Summary 3m
- Introduction 2m
- Introduction to HTML/JavaScript Windows Store Apps 8m
- Blank App Project Demo 5m
- Grid App Project Demo 7m
- Split App Project Demo 2m
- Fixed App Project Demo 2m
- Navigation App Project Demo 2m
- UI Surfaces, Layout and Navigation 8m
- AppBar and MessageDialog Demo 8m
- AppBar and Flyout Demo 7m
- Navigation Techniques Demo 12m
- Controls 8m
- HTML and WinJS Controls Demo - Part 1 8m
- HTML and WinJS Controls Demo - Part 2 9m
- Working with Data 5m
- Templates and ListView Demo 10m
- Animation 4m
- Getting Started with Animations and the SDK 3m
- Adding Animations Demo 5m
- Live Tiles 5m
- Understanding Tile Templates 5m
- Tile Notifications and Badges Demo 18m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 2m
- Windows 8 Apps with XAML 8m
- File New and Basic Pages 5m
- Layout Aware Split Pages and the Simulator 6m
- Grid Apps, Flip View and Grouped Lists 9m
- Controls Overview 4m
- Adding Controls to a Page 7m
- Unified Approach to Events 4m
- Wiring Up Event Handlers 9m
- Working with Data 5m
- Data Binding Scenarios 7m
- MVVM and Data Binding 7m
- Styling and Visual States 4m
- 3 Types of Styles 7m
- Re-Templating Controls 6m
- Visual States 5m
- Animations 7m
- Child Transition Animations 4m
- Applying Theme Transitions 4m
- Applying Theme Animations 5m
- Summary 1m
About the authors
Dan Wahlin founded Wahlin Consulting, which provides consulting and training services on JavaScript, Angular, Node.js, C#, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Docker, and Kubernetes. He is a Google GDE (and former Microsoft MVP and Regional Director), Docker Captain, and speaks at conferences and user groups around the world. Dan is active on Twitter (@DanWahlin), blogs at https://blog.codewithdan.com, and adds a lot of code to his Github repos at https://github.com/danwahlin.
John Papa is a dedicated father and husband, a professional Web Developer, and professional storyteller in the technology community. He currently is a Partner GM for Microsoft leading the Growth Ecosystems Cloud Advocacy teams and has formerly worked for Disney on several web and mobile applications ans systems that you may have used. His passions are coding and teaching modern web technologies, running, and enjoying everything Disney with his family. John is a co-host of the Web Rush podcast... more