Windows 8

This session will provide some pointers to help you write a test plan with Microsoft Test Manager so you do not test in production. The instructors will provide an overview of adding trial functionality, handling errors, implementing a test strategy and designing a diagnostic and monitoring…

The key message of this module is file access and what Windows 8 can do to protect data. The demos will go over designing and implementing data caching, saving and retrieving files from the file system, and securing application data. [01:27] - Data caching [12:00] - Data storage [31:56] - Secure…

Learn more about the 5 "y"s of good UI responsiveness. This session will review how to facilitate good UI responsiveness for a fast and fluid experience, how to implement animations and transitions, and how to create custom WinJS controls while building in globalization/localization for…

There are two ways to set up your push service, the hard way and the easy way. The instructors provide an overview on how to implement the printing and PlayTo contracts and how to understand the push notification system for doing live tile updates and more. [01:33] - Implement printing [20:03] -…

The easy way to capture media is with camera capture UI, the powerful way is with media capture. This segment demos capturing media from the camera and microphone, discovering device capabilities and reading various hardware sensors. [03:24] - Capture pictures and video [25:53] - Jack of Tools demo…

This module provides an overview on how to create and consume background tasks and components to make your code more reusable. Additionally the instructors will go over how to integrate WinRT components into a solution. [15:21] - Create background tasks [24:54] - Consume background tasks [29:01] -…

Abstract: Bart De Smet from the Reactive Extensions team joins Jerry Nixon for today’s episode as they discuss the importance of using Rx and LINQ in their Windows 8 apps. Tune in as they share some background info as well as best practices for .NET developers who want to streamline their code and…

Bob 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…

Finally, 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.

Continuing 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.