
Discover how Windows 8 updates navigation, the login and startup screens, and how to integrate app data into the startup screen for store apps.
Navigate the Windows 8 start screen, a gesture-based interface where live tiles replace the start menu, with desktop tiles static and icons supporting consistent branding.
set and control animation timing with begin time, including delays and negative starts, to sequence animations. adjust speed ratio, auto reverse, and repeat behavior to shape duration and looping.
Explain how to navigate property paths, including target properties and ambiguous paths, by using parentheses to specify the fill property's type and name so animations resolve correctly.
Explore how back, elastic, and other ease functions can produce negative values and why, using quadratic interpolation to illustrate ease in, ease out, and symmetry with half-time behavior.
Explore contracts and extensions as a new way to interact with Windows, other apps, and attached devices.
Add custom print options beyond built-in ones by defining values, creating a print task options details list, and integrating them into the print UI in Visual Studio.
Learn how Windows Push Notification Services (WNS) lets developers send tile and badge updates from their cloud service, delivering new updates power efficiently and reliably to users.
Demonstrates how to implement sending a push notification via an http post to WNS, with four required headers (x-wns-type, content-type, content-length, authorization), and how to manage access tokens and responses.
Register background tasks in a class library that can run in the main app or the system provided host, with time triggers requiring at least 15 minutes.
Learn how app sales convert to proceeds after the Windows Store fee. Track payment eligibility using the $200 threshold across all markets and review financial reports.
Set up licensing information, test in-app offers with the current app simulator, and implement purchase UI. Configure in-app offers in the Windows Store with tokens, prices, and language descriptions.
Our Advanced Windows Store App Development Using C# course provides developers with the knowledge and decision making skills for utilizing C# and Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 to develop Windows Store apps, discover and interact with devices, program user interaction and enhance user interfaces, manage data and security, and prepare for a solution deployment. This course provides credit towards the MCSD certification.
This course is designed for developers with two to five years of experience with C# and XAML applications, as well as experience with developing applications in accordance with Windows Store app guidelines.
The primary objectives of this course include:
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