Course
Skills Expanded
Building Windows 8 Style Apps in C# and XAML
Learn how to build applications for Windows 8 using C# and XAML
What you'll learn
Windows 8 introduces a new style of application, along with a new API for building this kind of app called 'WinRT'. This course shows how to use WinRT, in conjunction with XAML, to build applications for Windows 8.
Table of contents
Building Windows 8 Style Apps in C# and XAML - Overview
54mins
Layout
50mins
Controls
50mins
- Introduction 3m
- Command Controls 4m
- Demo: Application Bar 10m
- Context Menus 3m
- Demo: Context Menus 2m
- Application Settings 3m
- CheckBox, RadioButton, and ToggleSwitch 3m
- Progress Controls 4m
- Demo: Progress Controls 3m
- Displaying Text 2m
- Demo: Displaying Text 3m
- Text Entry 2m
- Sliders 4m
- Styling 3m
- WebView 1m
- UserControl 2m
- Summary 0m
List Controls
29mins
Application Model
54mins
Data Binding
40mins
- Introduction 3m
- Binding Expressions 2m
- DataContext 1m
- Demo: Bindings and DataContext 2m
- Element to Element Binding 0m
- Demo:ElementName 2m
- Source and RelativeSource 2m
- Binding Mode 3m
- Change Notifications 3m
- Demo: INotifyPropertyChanged 3m
- Value Converters 2m
- List Binding 2m
- Demo: ItemsControl Binding 5m
- List Change Notifications 1m
- Grouping 4m
- Demo: Grouping 4m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Ian is an independent consultant, developer, speaker, and author. He has written books on Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms, and Visual Studio. He lives in London but can often be found on various developer mailing lists and newsgroups, where a popular sport is to see who can get him to write the longest email in reply to the shortest possible question.