Programming Windows, 6th Edition (Release Preview)

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Book Detail 

Paperback: 800 pages

Publisher: Microsoft Press (November 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0735671761

ISBN-13: 978-0735671768 

File Size: 11.2 Mb | File Format: PDF + EPUB

Book Description 

NOTE: This book is based on Windows 8 Release Preview; its content and publication date will be updated for final Windows 8 software.

Reimagined for full-screen and touch-optimized apps, Windows 8 provides a platform for reaching new users in new ways. In response, programming legend Charles Petzold is rewriting his classic Programming Windows—one of the most popular programming books of all time—to show developers how to use existing skills and tools to build Windows 8 apps.

Programming Windows, Sixth Edition will focus on creating Windows 8 apps accessing the Windows Runtime with XAML and C#. The book will also provide C++ code samples. The Sixth Edition will be organized in two parts:

• Part I, “Elementals,” begins with the interrelationship between code and XAML, basic event handling, dynamic layout, controls, templates, asynchronous processing, the application bar, control customization, and collections. You should emerge from Part I ready to create sophisticated page-oriented collection-based user interfaces using the powerful ListView and GridView controls.
• Part II, “Specialties,” explores topics you might not need for every program but are essential to a well-rounded education in Windows 8. These include multitouch, bitmap graphics, interfacing with share and search facilities, printing, working with the sensors (GPS and orientation), text, obtaining input from the stylus (including handwriting recognition), accessing web services, calling Win32 and DirectX functions, and bringing your application to the Windows 8 app store.

About The Author 

Charles Petzold began programming for Windows 27 years ago with beta versions of Windows 1. He wrote the first articles about Windows programming to appear in a magazine and wrote one of the first books on the subject, Programming Windows, first published in 1988. Over the past decade, he has written seven
books on .NET programming, including the recent Programming Windows Phone 7 (Microsoft Press, 2010), and he currently writes a column on touch-oriented user interfaces for MSDN Magazine. Petzold’s books also include Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Microsoft Press, 1999), a unique exploration of digital technologies, and The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine (Wiley, 2008).

Brief of Contents 

Chapter 1 Markup and Code
Chapter 2 XAML Syntax
Chapter 3 Basic Event Handling
Chapter 4 Presentation with Panels
Chapter 5 Control Interaction
Chapter 6 WinRT and MVVM
Chapter 7 Building an Application

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