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Building Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Jump Start
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Join Senior Technical Evangelist Ben Riga as he dives into the major similarities and differences between these two platforms while providing invaluable guidance, best practices, and patterns as well as demonstrating techniques to help you deliver apps for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 with maximum code reuse.
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50 minutes, 42 secondsBuilding Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8: (01a) Comparing Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8,…Feb 26, 2013 at 2:44PM
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Windows 8 and Windows are not the same platform. This module will cover how they are different by going over the UI and XAML, Platform specific features and reviewing the data model and supporting code. [06:15] - Windows and Windows Phone convergence [13:25] - UI and XAML [23:13] - Data model and… -
49 minutes, 44 secondsBuilding Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8: (01b) Comparing Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8,…Feb 26, 2013 at 2:44PM 3
Windows 8 and Windows are not the same platform. This module will cover how they are different by going over the UI and XAML, Platform specific features and reviewing the data model and supporting code. [12:05] - Demo - reminders [20:00] - App settings [31:03] - Media capture [39:31] - App bar Full… -
28 minutes, 26 secondsBuilding Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8: (02) Basics of View ModelsFeb 26, 2013 at 2:45PM 0
This session will go over Data binding basics and look further into Dependency object and property. It will review properties for binding specifically INotifyPropertyChanged and INotifyCollectionChanged, and include business logic to respond to user actions in the view. [01:53] - Data binding… -
35 minutes, 16 secondsBuilding Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8: (03) Model-View-ViewModelFeb 26, 2013 at 2:45PM 0
This module introduces the user to MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel), the architecture and the Pros and cons. It will provide and overview for how to share code using MVVM, .NET portable class library as well as going over best practices and providing a wealth of resource information. [03:29] -… -
28 minutes, 8 secondsBuilding Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8: (04) Sharing Code Between Windows 8 and…Feb 26, 2013 at 2:45PM 6
Ben creates live demos to show examples of how to maximize code reuse. This final segment will include an overview of reuse techniques such as portable library, shared source code, inheritance, conditional compilation, partial classes and methods. [01:54] - Portable Library [10:17] - Shared source…
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