Learn and Understand UWP Development: The Complete Guide

Demonstrates universal Windows platform development across devices, using a food trucks app with rest api data to teach asynchronous data, navigation, mvvm, adaptive ui, and local storage with favorites.

Explore UWP platform capabilities, including live tiles, toasts, action center notifications, data sharing, Cortana integration, file extension and protocol handling, and app-to-app interactions with location and camera access.

Learn how to start a universal Windows app in Visual Studio, set minimum and target versions, and manage debugging tools and NuGet packages.

Explore adaptive UWP development by targeting platform versions, displays, and device families, using contract presence checks to safely access newer APIs while supporting older builds.

Explore the structure of a UWP app, inspecting the app class, manifest, and capabilities, and learn how visual assets, packaging, and native compilation drive Windows Store deployment.

Explore using XAML in a Universal Windows Platform project with Visual Studio, and learn how XAML parses into objects, text blocks, grids, brushes, and markup extensions.

Learn about displaying text, images, and media in UWP apps, using text blocks, rich text, and resource localization, with high DPI awareness, image scaling, and icons.

Understand how the layout system measures and arranges UI elements by flow direction, alignment, width and height, margins, and minimum and maximum constraints in UWP.

Learn how UWP panel controls manage layout with border, stack panel, grid, and canvas, covering margins, padding, corner radii, row/column definitions, attached properties, and z-index.

Explore how to animate UWP apps using storyboards and triggers in XAML, creating color pulse and scale animations with keyframes and easing for responsive controls.

Explore advanced UWP controls, including command bar, app bar, and webview. Implement a map control with coordinates, zoom, and custom symbols.

Discover how to set up a UWP sample app by reserving a global name, linking store identity, and scaffolding a UI with home and detail pages, map, favorites, and settings.

Explore asynchronous programming in UWP using await and async to perform file IO, picker operations, and parallel tasks while keeping the UI responsive.

Learn to use http client to make rest calls, serialize json and xml, and handle headers, async responses, and simple data parsing in UWP development.

learn to store and access local data in a uwp app using local folders, roaming state, and a sqlite database with json settings persistence.

Keep the UI responsive by offloading heavy work to background threads with async tasks and the thread pool, then update UI controls on the UI thread via a dispatcher.

Connects to a local ASP.NET web API to simulate cloud data and stores it locally for online and offline access, using JSON conversion to fetch truck data and manage favorites.

Explore navigation in UWP development by building frames, pages, and back stacks, wiring navigate calls, and managing enablement of the go back button across pages.

Learn to integrate the system back button with your UWP app across navigation environments, manage back stack, and provide consistent back navigation in tablet and desktop modes.

Master building modal dialogs, menus, flyouts, and tooltips in a new UWP project by using content dialogs, pop-up menus, and flyouts, with async patterns and user prompts to guide interaction.

Learn how to create and manage multiple windows in a UWP app by creating new windows with separate frames and pages, passing parameters, and safely handling threading and window isolation.

Learn to implement navigation in a UWP app using a navigation frame and a singleton navigation service, enabling routing and back navigation between main and other pages.

Explore basic XAML parsing, apply data templates, and bind to collections and selections, then enhance UIs with converters and observable collections for dynamic, two-way data updates.

Explore compiled binding with x:bind, compare with standard binding, and bind a truck list using data templates and selection; enable two-way binding and converters in UWP.

Apply the MVVM architecture to separate model, view, and view model, use binding and observable collections to display data, and implement a repository and dialog service for cross-platform UWP apps.

Explore the I command interface, bind a view model command to a button, and implement can execute and can execute changed for loading in an MVP sample with trucks VM.

Refactor the architecture to a portable core and view models, enabling cross-platform reuse through DI repositories and platform-specific services, and migrate the UI to command-bound navigation.

Create a UWP rating control in Visual Studio with XAML and a dependency property. Utilize data binding, converters, and templates with content controls to render a 1 to 5 rating.

Learn to customize a UWP control's appearance by editing its default template in Visual Studio, adjusting templates, bindings, visual states, and animations for buttons and radios.

Derive a templated control from the control class and define a default style and templates, enabling developers to customize the look via template bindings and a rating property.

Learn how to build a custom panel in UWP development by implementing measure and arrange, dividing the space provided by the parent among children, and creating a uniform width panel.

Learn to use attached properties in UWP to add metadata and layout behavior to panel children, including a uniform width panel with scale and tooltips, plus text box validation.

Shift the Universal Windows Platform app user interface to user controls and a rating control, using data templates, binding, and rating change commands to update the backend and map markers.

Learn to design UWP interfaces with effective pixels for consistent size across DPI and distance, and apply resize, reflow, reveal, reposition, replace, and re-architect techniques for adaptive layouts.

Demonstrates scaling UI elements with a view box control in UWP, using uniform, fill, and uniform to fill stretch modes, plus text wrapping and scroll viewer for responsive layouts.

Learn to implement a split view in universal Windows platform apps, revealing and hiding UI with a hamburger menu and responsive layouts across devices.

Learn how to use the RelativePanel to create adaptive, responsive layouts by positioning elements with attached properties and adapting to window width.

Learn to implement visual state manager in UWP by defining groups and states, using setters to toggle the split view display modes based on window width, declared in XAML.

Learn to use adaptive triggers in UWP to create a responsive split view, switch visual states by window width, and build custom triggers without code-behind.

Learn to implement a tailored view in UWP by creating device family specific XAML pages and folders, and load the appropriate desktop or mobile view to adapt the interface.

Update a UWP sample app with adaptive UI by implementing split view, visual state manager, adaptive triggers, and relative panel for responsive layouts.

Explore the application lifecycle and its events, learn when to save and restore state during suspending, entering background, and termination, and how to resume after activation.

Explore how to implement extended execution in UWP by creating an extended execution session, setting reasons and descriptions, handling revocation, using get deferral, and safely completing the extension before suspension.

Learn to implement background tasks in UWP using triggers, register and declare tasks, and manage communication with foreground apps, comparing old and in-process models under resource constraints.

Learn to create opportunistic background tasks in UWP, using maintenance, application, and device use triggers. Implement registration, deferral, and completion handling, and trigger tasks from code and UI for work.

Save and restore app state across backgrounding and relaunch to preserve data, the navigation frame, and back stack visibility using frame states in local storage and a session data file.

Learn to work with UWP live tiles, including title templates, adaptive and secondary tiles, and time-based updates, updating tiles from foreground, background, and the cloud.

Learn to implement adaptive toast notifications in UWP, including interactive templates, grouping, slots, actions, and activation handling via on launch and on activated.

Register and handle file extensions by editing the app manifest and file type associations, implement file activation and activation overrides, read file contents safely, and manage frames and back stacks.

Learn to launch other apps and handle URI protocols in UWP, register protocol handlers, pass arguments and data, and return results between apps.

Explore UWP share contracts using the data transfer manager to share text and HTML, handle share requests, and implement receiving data via on share target activated.

Learn to implement drag and drop in a UWP app, handling storage and text items, accepting dropped content, tracking items, and dragging between applications.

Learn to create and consume a background app service in UWP: register an app service, handle requests with deferral and protocol handling, exchanging cheeseburger price data between two apps.

Learn to integrate Cortana into UWP apps by defining voice commands and launching or querying apps. Configure a voice service and manifest, handling food type queries with disambiguation and confirmation.

Register your app with the Windows Notification Service to receive push notifications. Handle user permissions and deliver toasts, tiles, or raw payloads through the app's channel.

Learn to access location and camera sensors in a UWP app by requesting permissions, handling status, and using geo locator and media capture for live video and still images.

Leverage device family platform extensions to write adaptive code that safely accesses APIs across desktop and mobile, using contracts, extensions, and a utility library to gate calls.

Apply platform capabilities by enabling tiles, toasts, sharing, and Cortana voice commands, demonstrating tile pinning, toast notifications, and sharing content from the app.