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8 minutes, 13 secondsPart 31: Where to Go From HereBob reviews the topics discussed throughout the series and provides some additional resources and guidance regarding how you should approach your career as a software developer.
Windows 8 UX Fundamentals Training Workshop 2012
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6 minutes, 16 secondsPart 30: Simulating Product PurchasesFinally, we learn how to enable in-product purchases to unlock certain features or allow for the purchase of in-app items making it possible for us to use a "free-mium" business model.
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4 minutes, 19 secondsPart 29: Simulating App PurchasesContinuing on from the previous lesson, 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.
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11 minutes, 37 secondsPart 28: 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.
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9 minutes, 29 secondsPart 27: Incorporating Scheduled ToastsThis lesson demonstrates the use of scheduled toasts to remind or notify the user of a task or change in the app.
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11 minutes, 14 secondsPart 26: Incorporating Push NotificationsContinuing from Part 25, this lesson demonstrates how to utilize push notifications from Windows Notification Services to provide information or state updates from the cloud to the user on the Windows 8 start page.
Windows Azure Mobile Services
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/tutorials/get-started/
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10 minutes, 51 secondsPart 25: Incorporating Secondary TilesThe Windows 8 start page is a distinctive feature and this lesson demonstrates how to implement secondary tiles to allow "deep linking" in the app.
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6 minutes, 57 secondsPart 24: Implementing the PreferenceIn this lesson, we follow the instructions of the Hands On Lab to tie up the loose ends and actually implement the desired functionality.
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7 minutes, 58 secondsPart 23: Adding a Preferences PageIn this lesson, we use the ToggleSwitch WinJS control to capture a user's preference for 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...
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6 minutes, 14 secondsPart 22: Adding an About PageIn this lesson, we learn how to add Settings pages to our project. These are used to respond to the Settings charm in Windows 8, and can be used for About pages, Preferences, or other related purposes.
