Programming Windows: Writing Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML by Charles Petzold

By Charles Petzold

Programming home windows, 6th variation will specialise in growing home windows eight apps gaining access to the home windows Runtime with XAML and C#. The e-book also will supply C++ code samples. The 6th variation can be equipped in 3 parts:

Part I, “Elementals,” starts with the interrelationship among code and XAML, simple occasion dealing with, dynamic format, controls, the appliance bar, keep an eye on customization, and collections. you need to emerge from half I able to create refined page-oriented collection-based person interfaces utilizing the strong ListView and GridView controls.

Part II, “Infrastructure,” examines the extent beneath the UI. In those chapters, you’ll cross deeper into home windows eight with a whole exploration of the multitouch interface, asynchronous operations for operating with documents and net prone, networking, safety, and globalization. You’ll see specific emphasis on information sharing, and interfacing with the hunt panes and agreement panes of home windows 8.

Part III, “Specialties,” explores subject matters you may no longer desire for each software yet are necessary to a well-rounded schooling in home windows eight. It comprises operating with the sensors (GPS and orientation), vector photos, bitmap images, media, textual content, printing, and acquiring enter from the stylus and handwriting recognizer.

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The LinearGradientBrush creates a gradient between two or more colors. For example, suppose you want to display some text with blue at the left gradually turning to red at the right. While we’re at it, let’s set a similar gradient on the Background property of the Grid but going the other way. Background = backgroundBrush; } The two brushes are created with two different styles of property initialization, but otherwise they’re basically the same. The LinearGradientBrush class defines two properties named StartPoint and EndPoint of type Point, which is a structure with X and Y properties representing a two-dimensional coordinate point.

The Geometry object defines lines and curves using coordinate points, and the Path renders those lines with a particular stroke brush and thickness. The most powerful and flexible Geometry derivative is PathGeometry. The content property of PathGeometry is named Figures, which is a collection of PathFigure objects. Each PathFigure is a series of connected straight lines and curves. The content property of PathFigure is Segments, a collection of PathSegment objects. PathSegment is the parent class to LineSegment, PolylineSegment, BezierSegment, PolyBezierSegment, QuadraticBezierSegment, PolyQuadraticBezierSegment, and ArcSegment.

At the time of this writing, the ResourceDictionary class does not define a public method that searches up the visual tree for dictionaries in ancestor classes. Media namespace. Current property. The predefined resources (such as the ApplicationPageBackgroundBrush referenced by the Grid) don’t seem to be programmatically enumerable. Nor are they documented. xaml file and viewing the available Background brush identifiers in the Properties view in the lower-right corner of Visual Studio. After ApplicationPageBackgroundBrush, the next most important predefined resource identifier is ApplicationTextBrush, which is black in the light theme, and white in the dark theme.

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