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In this lesson Bob kicks off the series talking about the organization, required setup and goals of the lessons, and provides some motivation and guidance for getting started.   Download Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8 http://www.microsoft.com/express   Windows Development Center…

This is the first of five videos that walks you through building your first Windows Store app with C#. In this video, we'll build a simple Hello world using XAML and C#. Step-by-Step tutorial from dev.windows.com Part 1 complete code   [01:44] Before you start[02:24] Step 1: Create a new…

Abstract:   Michael Palermo welcomes Kevin Ashley to the show as they discuss how Kevin has made over $100k on his Windows 8 apps. Tune in as they discuss some tips and tricks for how you can improve your app revenue like  how to properly price your app and various monetization…

Jon Berry, a veteran Windows engineer, digs into the new way Windows 8 manages processes to support the brave new world of Windows running on various CPU architectures including ARM and ATOM, which present an interesting set of technical challenges given the need to aggressively…

In this lesson Bob walks through the major sections of the GroupedItemsDetail.xaml page explaining the purpose of the elements.  He explains the purpose of the LayoutAwarePage, how binding syntax works in XAML, resource dictionaries, styles, data templates, and more.   Download the entire…

Several times up until now we've talked about the special relationship between the data and the user interface and in this lesson we talk about how change notification works and the how the interfaces, like the INotifyPropertyChanged and ICollectionChanged provide a contract that data source classes…

In this lesson, we begin the process of understanding how to utilize data in our app.  We begin by looking at this from the GroupedItemsPage.xaml's perspective, and how it utilizes the CollectionViewSource to bind to a View Model provided in the LayoutAwarePage.cs.  We talk about the…

In this lesson we take a short aside and learn about the design time experience in Visual Studio and learn how it is able to render sample data.  This gives us insights into binding syntax, data collections, schemas and more. Download the entire series' source code

Continuing to work with the layout of our pages, we tweak the DataTemplates that are responsible for the presentation of individual data items in our data source. Download the entire series' source code

In this lesson we talk about the JSON data format and look at the code in the RecipeDataSource.cs that loads and parses through that data to create instances of our RecipeDataItem and RecipeDataCollection objects. ResourcesOrganizing and Simplifying JavaScript with Object Literals - 12 Download…