Building A Real-World Windows 8 Application Architecture Using MVVM
Learn how to build a testable and maintainable code base for your Windows 8 applications using proven technologies such as MVVM. This course builds a fully-working application for Windows 8 using a solid architecture based on MVVM. After following this course, you'll have a clear understanding of how to set up a project for Windows 8.
What you'll learn
MVVM has been covered a lot in numerous sessions and articles. Still, some people are a bit confused when they are building a complete application based on the pattern. On top of that, Windows 8 brings a lot of new features to the table including contracts, tiles and so on. Working with these features from an MVVM point-of-view is also new and different. In this practical course, we will build up an application from scratch and include the Windows 8 features, of course, all based on good practice and real-life architecture.
Table of contents
- Module Introduction 2m
- List Controls and The GridView 3m
- Demo: GridView 4m
- Demo: Grouped GridView 4m
- Loading on Demand 2m
- Demo: Loading on Demand 5m
- Semantic Zoom 2m
- Demo: Semantic Zoom 4m
- Contracts 8m
- Demo: Adding Support for Sharing as A Source 4m
- Tiles 6m
- Demo: Local Tile Updates 4m
- Push Notifications 3m
- Demo: Push Notifications 4m
- Process Lifecycle 5m
- Demo: Managing State 5m
- 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.