Contracts and Extensions in Windows 8
Working with contracts such as Search and Share and some less common extensions such as AutoPlay.
What you'll learn
The Contracts API in Windows 8 offers applications the capability to integrate nicely with the operating system. In the current release, there are 5 contracts that we as developer can work with. The goal of this course is teaching how we can write our applications so that we make maximum use of the contracts. Contracts are expected by the user to be working in almost every application. It's a vital part that every Windows 8 developer should understand and apply in his projects. Next to Contracts, this course also explores some of the available extensions.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Searching in Windows 8 6m
- Demo: Searching in Windows 8 5m
- Implementing the search contract 9m
- Demo: Simple search using the Visual Studio template 4m
- Demo: Adding search manually 5m
- Demo: Starting search when typing in the app 1m
- Search activation 4m
- Demo: Search activation 4m
- Search suggestions and recommendations 5m
- Demo: search suggestions 3m
- Demo: recommendations 3m
- Demo: Local search suggestions 2m
- Search pane customizations 1m
- Demo: customizing the search pane 1m
- Search contract best practices 2m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Sharing in Windows 8 7m
- Demo: Sharing in Windows 8 2m
- Implementing the share contract: the source 9m
- Demo: Adding share and the data package 5m
- Demo: Using a DataRequestDeferral 2m
- Demo: Using a delegate for the DataRequested event 3m
- Schema-based formats 3m
- Demo: Schema-based formats 2m
- Custom formats 1m
- Demo: Custom formats 3m
- Should my app share? 1m
- Implementing the Share contract: the target 7m
- Demo: Creating a share target 5m
- Creating a QuickLink 1m
- Demo: Creating a QuickLink 2m
- Share contract do's and don'ts 2m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- The File Picker API and the File Pickers 6m
- Demo: using the File Picker contract 2m
- Adding the File Open Picker contract to an app 4m
- Demo: File Open Picker contract using the Visual Studio template 3m
- Demo: Adding the File Open Picker manually 6m
- Debugging the File Picker contract 1m
- Demo: Debugging the File Picker contract 1m
- Adding the File Save Picker contract to an app 3m
- Demo: Adding the File Save Picker manually 5m
- The Cached File Updater 1m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- The Settings Charm and the Settings contract 5m
- Demo: The Settings contract 1m
- Adding the Settings contract to your applications 2m
- Demo: Adding the Settings contract to an application 2m
- Callisto for flyouts 1m
- Demo: Callisto 3m
- Settings contract do’s and don’ts 3m
- The Play To Contract 3m
- Demo: Showing application pictures using the Play To contract 3m
- Demo: Showing video using the Play To contract 1m
- Demo: Playing local music files 1m
- 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.