Post by altair on Apr 24, 2015 0:39:23 GMT 10
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Hi Folks,
I am creating this tutorial as a gratitude to this forum for the WeatherBoy Project.
I am going to discuss what are the things you need to create awesome Windows Phone / Windows 8 Apps in a Windows Forms Application Developers point of view.
Windows Phone / Windows 8 App Development is completely different in the way they are designed, coded and executed.
These apps (thereafter referred to as Store Apps) use XAML ( eXtensible Application Markup Language, a declarative variant of XML) for design based codes.
Currently, Microsoft has not shown much interest for VB.NET so it is not yet advisable to create Store Apps in VB as they tend to have a lot of compatibility issues compared to C# (my experiences).
Asynchronous functions are used in favor for Synchronous functions on Store Apps. For Example :- WinForm's WebClient can DownloadFile function is replaced with DownloadFileAsync which is an asynchronous variant. Asynchronous functions are functions that run in background and continues the execution even if the function is not complete and then sends a message when its complete or ran to an error.
MVVM or Model-View-View Model is an architectural pattern designed to handle data in a very efficient way in Store Apps.
My.Settings is removed in favor of IsolatedStorage.ApplicationSettings .
Silverlight and WPF programmers are a little bit eased in Store Apps.
Well, thats what I can give now,
I know I am not a good tutor, so give me your suggestions below.
Helpful Links
MVVM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_View_ViewModel)
Windows 8 Programming Development Tutorial (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh974581.aspx)
Asynchronous Processes (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443.aspx)
Tuts Plus Tutorial Windows Phone Programming - Isolated Storage (appliable to Windows 8 as well!!!) (http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/working-with-isolated-storage-on-windows-phone-8--cms-22778)
Enjoy
Altair - The Flying One
I am creating this tutorial as a gratitude to this forum for the WeatherBoy Project.
I am going to discuss what are the things you need to create awesome Windows Phone / Windows 8 Apps in a Windows Forms Application Developers point of view.
Windows Phone / Windows 8 App Development is completely different in the way they are designed, coded and executed.
These apps (thereafter referred to as Store Apps) use XAML ( eXtensible Application Markup Language, a declarative variant of XML) for design based codes.
Currently, Microsoft has not shown much interest for VB.NET so it is not yet advisable to create Store Apps in VB as they tend to have a lot of compatibility issues compared to C# (my experiences).
Asynchronous functions are used in favor for Synchronous functions on Store Apps. For Example :- WinForm's WebClient can DownloadFile function is replaced with DownloadFileAsync which is an asynchronous variant. Asynchronous functions are functions that run in background and continues the execution even if the function is not complete and then sends a message when its complete or ran to an error.
MVVM or Model-View-View Model is an architectural pattern designed to handle data in a very efficient way in Store Apps.
My.Settings is removed in favor of IsolatedStorage.ApplicationSettings .
Silverlight and WPF programmers are a little bit eased in Store Apps.
Well, thats what I can give now,
I know I am not a good tutor, so give me your suggestions below.
Helpful Links
MVVM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_View_ViewModel)
Windows 8 Programming Development Tutorial (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh974581.aspx)
Asynchronous Processes (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443.aspx)
Tuts Plus Tutorial Windows Phone Programming - Isolated Storage (appliable to Windows 8 as well!!!) (http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/working-with-isolated-storage-on-windows-phone-8--cms-22778)
Enjoy
Altair - The Flying One
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