Key Features
- Learn to build applications for Windows 10, the latest Windows version
- Develop your applications to be cross-platform by making them compatible with desktops, smartphones, and tablets
- This guide is packed with recipes covering major solutions to day-to-day problems faced by Windows programmers
Book Description
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 working 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 efficiently with multimedia.
You will also see how to use sensors, such as the accelerometer and gyroscope, to read data and recognize various user operations, such as swipe. You will make your application ready to work with Internet-based scenarios, such as sending 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 desktops, smartphones, and tablets.
What you will learn
- Start developing different applications
- 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, 2D/3D graphics, and animations
- Capture data from built-in sensors
- Handle various Internet-based scenarios
- Test and submit the application to the Windows Store
About the Author
Marcin Jamro, PhD, is an entrepreneur and researcher, as well as a developer and architect of various kinds of applications, 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, design patterns, new technologies, and mobile devices, especially the Windows platform.
He has practical experience in project development and holds the position of President of the Board at TITUTO Sp. z o.o. [Ltd.] in Rzeszów, Poland. This company develops various IT projects, including its own solutions. You can read more about them at http://tituto.com.
Marcin has published several papers, taken part in many conferences, and organized a few of them, as well as participated in two internships at Microsoft in Redmond, USA. He has Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, and Microsoft Certified Professional Developer certificates.
More information about Marcin is available on his website: http://jamro.biz. You can easily contact him by sending an e-mail message to marcin@jamro.biz.
