Windows 8.1: New Features for C#/XAML Developers
Get to know all the new features added by Microsoft in Windows 8.1. Developers will have many more options to create compelling experiences with the much-extended API.
What you'll learn
Windows 8.1 brings a lot of new features to the platform which are interesting for developers. Updated contracts such as Search and Share, new controls, new options for data binding, new screen sizes, more tile sizes and much more. To take advantage of these new options in your apps , it’s important that as a Windows 8 developer, you’re on board with all that’s being added by Microsoft to the platform. Also the tooling (Visual Studio and Blend) used for building Windows 8.1 apps has received a number of important updates. This course extends the already existing courses on Pluralsight on Windows 8 by showing the novelties in the different areas.
Table of contents
- Module Introduction 3m
- Visual Studio 2013: New templates 5m
- Demo: Hub Template 3m
- XAML Editing Improvements 4m
- Demo: XAML Editing Improvements 3m
- Data Binding Improvements 1m
- Demo: Data Binding Improvements 2m
- Resources 1m
- Demo: Resources 2m
- Retargeting an app to Windows 8.1 8m
- Demo: Retargeting an app to Windows 8.1 3m
- Blend 2013 4m
- Demo: Behaviors 3m
- Summary 1m
- Module Introduction 2m
- New tile Sizes 7m
- Demo: New tile Sizes 6m
- New Screen Sizes 14m
- Demo: Upgrading to the new Window Sizes 6m
- Demo: Visual States and the new Screen Sizes 3m
- Search Contract in Windows 8.1 4m
- Demo: Search Contract in Windows 8.1 5m
- Share Contracts in Windows 8.1 2m
- Demo: Share Contracts in Windows 8.1 5m
- Summary 1m
- Module Introduction 3m
- Hub Control 3m
- Demo: Hub Control 4m
- SearchBox Control 2m
- Demo: SearchBox Control 2m
- DatePicker and TimePicker 2m
- Demo: DatePicker and TimePicker 2m
- Flyouts and MenuFlyouts 5m
- Demo: Flyouts and MenuFlyouts 4m
- SettingsFlyout 1m
- Demo: SettingsFlyout 2m
- AppBarButton and CommandBar2 4m
- Demo: AppBarButton and CommandBar 2m
- Hyperlink 0m
- Demo: Hyperlink 1m
- WebView 2m
- Demo: WebView 2m
- MediaElement 1m
- Demo: MediaElement 2m
- Data Binding Improvements 1m
- Demo: Data Binding Improvements 5m
- Resource Changes 2m
- Demo: Resource Changes 2m
- RenderTargetBitmap and Binary XAML 2m
- Demo: RenderTargetBitmap 3m
- Summary 1m
- Module Introduction 2m
- The New Contacts API 3m
- Demo: ContactManager 4m
- Managing Appointments 1m
- Demo: Managing Appointments 4m
- Speech Synthesis 3m
- Demo: Speech Synthesis 3m
- Multiple Views for an App 2m
- Demo: ProjectionManager 5m
- Alarm-enabled Apps 6m
- Demo: Creating an Alarm App 5m
- Working With PDFs 1m
- Demo: Working With PDFs 3m
- Hardware Support 2m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Gill Cleeren is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and Pluralsight author. Gill is the CTO of Xebia Microsoft Services Belgium and focuses on web and mobile architecture. He's also a frequent speaker at many international conferences. Gill also founded Techorama, the biggest IT conference in Belgium and the Netherlands.