Windows 8 MVVM patterns revealed : covers both C# and JavaScript approaches / Ashish Ghoda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ghoda, Ashish.

Series:

Expert's voice in Windows 8.

The expert's voice in Windows 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Application software--Development.

Application software.

C# (Computer program language).

JavaScript (Computer program language).

Microsoft Windows (Computer file).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2012.

Other Title:

Windows Eight Model-view-view-model patterns revealed

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Apress : Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer Science+Business Media New York, c2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) pattern is held in high regard by many developers as an excellent way of creating sophisticated modern applications. It's clear seperation of presentation and business logic produces a clean implementation that promotes speed, scalability and code reuse in applications with a complex UI. These strengths have found it favor with WPF and Silverlight developers. It is now increasingly being employed for Windows 8 apps, a purpose to which it is ideally suited as this book will show. In this brief, information-rich, guide we will show you how MVVM works with both XAML (C#) and HTML5 (JavaScript) flavors of Windows 8. Beginning with a brief recap of MVVM concepts under .NET - to provide a common frame of reference - we will then delve into the details of how MVVM can best be implemented in Metro-style apps for Windows 8 and show a working application framework in each case.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) Pattern; Windows 8 Store Applications; The Finance Hub Windows 8 Store Application; The Book Structure; Chapter 1: Setting Up Windows 8 Application Project; Chapter 2: Implementing the View; Chapter 3: Implementing the Model; Chapter 4: Implementing the View Model; Chapter 5: HTML5, JavaScript, and Windows 8 Applications; Chapter 6: View, Model, and View Model Structures in HTML5 and JavaScript; The Source Code

Chapter 1 Setting Up Windows 8 Application Project The Development Environment; The Windows 8 Operating System; The Visual Studio Development Platform; Visual Studio 2012; Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8; Data Storage; Developer License; The Windows Store Project Templates; Creating a Windows Store XAML Project - Finance Hub; Exploring Finance Hub Project; The Project Structure; The Package Application Manifest File; The Application UI Tab; The Capabilities Tab; The Declarations Tab; The Packaging Tab; Setting MVVM Architecture in Finance Hub Project; Summary

Chapter 2 Implementing the View Customizing Deployment Package and Runtime Configuration Properties; Background Color of the Tile; Application Logo Files and Splash Screen; Enabling Customization of Application Styles and Themes; Adding New Resource Dictionary File; Enabling Additional Resources.xaml Resource Dictionary at Application Level; Customizing Application Theme; Developing User Interface; The Main Startup Page - MainPage.xaml; Adding Bottom Application Bar - MainPage.xaml; Setting Up Remaining Custom Resources and Styles in Resources.xaml; Adding Stocks Page - StocksPage.xaml

Set Application Name Display Application Logo with Application Name; Display One Stock for Demonstration Purpose; Adding Stock Details Page - StockInfoView.xaml and StockDetails.xaml; Adding StockInfoView.xaml User Control; Adding StockDetails.xaml Split Page; Adding Add Stock Flyout Control; Adding Remove Stock Flyout Control; Integrating Flyout Controls with Bottom Application Bar; Creating UIHelper Dependency Class; Implementing Buttons Click Events to Display Pop-up; Summary; Chapter 3 Implementing the Model; Define Serializable and Deserializable Stocks Data Model

Define enum to support Add and Remove Stocks Actions Define a Class for Event Arguments of Add and Remove Stocks Actions; Create a Helper Class to Store and Retrieve Stocks Watchlist in the Local Data Storage; Asynchronous Operations and Local Storage Capabilities for Windows 8 Applications; The async Modifier and await Operator; Windows 8 Local Folders and Files Management; Implementing Local Storage Helper Class; Add SimulatedRandomStocksDetail.csv File; Summary; Chapter 4 Implementing the ViewModel; Building MVVM Framework for FinanceHub Application; IoC Container Dependency

Adding MetroIoc.dll File to the Dependencies Folder

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781430249092

1430249099

OCLC:

831115654