Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 34: Where to go from here?

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 33: Simulating Product Purchases

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 32: Simulating App Purchases

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 31: Detecting Trial Versions

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 30: Incorporating Scheduled Toasts

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 29: Incorporating Push Notifications

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 28: Enabling Secondary Tiles

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 27: Implementing User Preferences

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 26: Saving User Preferences

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 25: Adding a Settings Command and Settings Flyout

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 24: Lifetime Management - Saving and Restoring State

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part23: Enabling your app to Record Video

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 22: Enabling your app to Take Photos

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 21: Implementing an AppBar and Flyout

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 20: Implementing the Search Contract

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 19: Implementing the Share Contract

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 18: Enabling Semantic Zooming

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 17: Accommodating the Snapped State

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 16: Responding to Device Orientation Changes

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 15: Implementing Type Converters

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 14: Modifying DataTemplates

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 13: Working with the GridView

Our focus turns back to the layout of the three main pages in our app. In this lesson we learn about the major properties of the GridView and how they affect the flexible layout and presentation of the data on our pages. ResourcesImage.Stretch property Stretch enumeration.

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 12: Working with Async Methods in the Windows Runtime

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 11: Working with JSON Data

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

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 10: Understanding Change Notification

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

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 9: Data Binding to the RecipeDataSource.cs

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.

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 8: Understanding how Data Binding Works at Design Time

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.

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 7: Data Binding and the SampleDataSource.cs

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

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 6: Modifying the Grid App Template with Branding Elements

In this lesson we follow the Hands On Labs to modify the branding elements of the app by adding images and configuring our app to use them. We learn about the Package.appxmanifest and how it introduces our app to Windows 8 and finally discuss the purpose of the App.xaml

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 5: Familiarizing Ourselves with the Grid App Template

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

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 4: Introduction to XAML - Continued

Bob continues by talking about default properties, the Content property utilized by most controls, property element syntax, and then talks about the various schemas utilized in XAML and what they are there for.

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 3: Introduction to XAML

Now that we have a project, it's time to learn XAML for user interface layout and interaction. Bob provides a fast but gentle introduction -- as he calls it, the "cheater's guide" -- to learning this declarative language. He explains what XAML is at a high level

Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 2: Getting Started with the Grid App Template

In lesson Bob takes the first steps towards building the Contoso Cookbook by creating and walking through a new Grid App Template project and modifying the project name displayed on the start page.

Windows 8 Development Tutorial (C#)

Developer downloads for programming Windows Store apps:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/apps/br229516.aspx

Windows 8 app samples


Windows 8 Apps with C# - Part 1: Introduction