Introduction to Windows 8 style application Development 12 Searchcontract Overview and principles

Search Contract Overview

Developers who have used the Windows 8 operating system know what charms is (the Super button). Among them in the charms contains a search, Microsoft called Search Contact, we can call search contract in the application of the corresponding API to implement the application search function.

Using search contract can be searched from anywhere in the system to our application, which means that no matter what we do on the operating system, we can use search contract to apply searches to third party applications at any time.

Search contract can be paged out in any scene, and of course it can depend on a scene (for example, a contact page is just a search for a contact, and a news page is just a search for news). We only need to be able to do this with a gentle stroke.

Analysis on the structure of Search contract panel

Search Contract panel can be simply analyzed as follows:

1 The scope of the search is the application of our choice;

2 Search recommendations are provided by the application we choose, generally are automatically based on the search criteria in the selected application search results, note: Search suggestions show up to 5;

3 List The Windows 8 style applications that have been installed to achieve search contract;