Windows 8 Hands-on Experiment Tutorial Experiment 1: Creating a Windows App Store application

Contoso Cookbook is a series of hands-on tutorials designed to immerse you in the development of Windows application store applications. When you have completed this experiment, you will create a beautiful and practical real-world application. The application will use some of the key new features in Window8. Through this series of experiments, you will learn a lot about creating excellent Windows application store applications, including:

User experience with Windows 8 controls such as GridView, ListView, Flipview, AppBar, and Semanticzoom.

Can be scaled to a different size display and provide a user experience for the secondary screen and different directions for processing.

By setting up, search and share contracts are integrated with the Windows 8 Super buttons.

Properly save and recover state by handling life cycle and application model events, and roaming the settings the user seamlessly moves between tasks and even devices.

Seamless integration with hardware to achieve image and video capture capabilities.

With the help of magnetic stickers fixed, notification and lock screen reminders keep the activity of the application content and always present to the user.

Integrates with the Windows Store API to implement trial and application purchase.

In the first experiment in this series, you will use Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) and C # to create applications, implement navigation, download data from Windows Azure (if no Internet connection can be loaded locally), and connect data to controls using data binding.

Goal

This experiment will show you how to:

Create a new Windows application store application using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 template.

Understand the structure of the project.

Branding your application by providing a custom tile image and other elements.

Use the HttpClient class to get recipe data from Windows Azure.

Binds data to the GridView control.

Use the data template of the ListView control to implement a custom data rendering.

Modify the code and markup generated by Visual Studio to implement the custom application user interface.

System Requirements

You need the following software to complete this experiment:

Microsoft Windows 8

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

Set up

You must perform the following steps to prepare the computer for this lab:

Install Microsoft Windows 8.

Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2012.

Practice

The following exercises are included in this experiment:

To create a Windows application Store application

Load recipe Data

Customizing the user interface

Estimated time of completion of this experiment: 30-45 minutes.

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