Posts
Bob_Tabor
LearnVisualStudio.NET
-
8 minutes, 30 secondsPart 34: Where to go from here?Bob reviews the topics discussed in this series of lessons, and provides some additional resources and guidance on how you should approach your career as a software developer.Resources -
11 minutes, 29 secondsPart 33: Simulating Product PurchasesFinally, we learn how to enable in-product purchases to unlock certain features or allow for the purchase of in-app items allowing us to use a "freemium" business model. -
8 minutes, 35 secondsPart 32: Simulating App PurchasesContinuing on from the previous lesson, now we learn how to unlock the app and its features by allowing the user to purchase a full version of the app directly from the app. -
15 minutes, 54 secondsPart 31: Detecting Trial VersionsIn this final Hands On Lab, we use the CurrentAppSimulator class to simulate interaction with the Windows Store API. Here we simply use the configuration file to declaratively modify the user interface. This simulates the data retrieved from the Windows Store. -
9 minutes, 12 secondsPart 30: Incorporating Scheduled ToastsThis lesson demonstrates the use of scheduled toasts to remind or notify the user of some task or change in the app.
-
11 minutes, 10 secondsPart 29: Incorporating Push NotificationsContinuing from the previous lesson, this lesson demonstrate how to utilize push notifications from Windows Notification Services to provide information or state updates to the user from the cloud on the Windows 8 start page.Resources -
10 minutes, 13 secondsPart 28: Enabling Secondary TilesThe Windows 8 start page is one of it's most distinctive features, and this lesson demonstrates how to implement secondary tiles to allow "deep linking" into functionality or data in the app. -
7 minutes, 13 secondsPart 27: Implementing User PreferencesIn this lesson we follow the instructions of the Hands On Lab to tie up the loose ends and actually implement the desire functionality. -
11 minutes, 20 secondsPart 26: Saving User PreferencesIn this lesson we use the ToggleSwitch element to capture a user's preference on how to deal with remembering the state of the app prior to it being terminated. We talk about the different special folders and objects we can use to save user data, and discuss roaming and how to utilize it in our...
-
6 minutes, 59 secondsPart 25: Adding a Settings Command and Settings FlyoutIn this lesson, we learn how to add Settings Flyouts using the Callisto controls. These are used to respond to the Settings charm in Windows 8, and can be used for About pages, Preferences or other related purposes.Resources
