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Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML (Microsoft Windows Development Series) 1st Edition

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Build immersive, responsive Metro touch apps for Windows 8 tablets, computers, and other devices! Top Microsoft MVP and Wintellect consultant Jeremy Likness shows how to leverage your existing C#, XAML, WPF, or Silverlight skills with new Visual Studio 11 tools and best practices to build incredibly powerful Metro/WinRT apps! Likness covers everything from line-of-business to consumer apps, showing exactly how Metro/WinRT builds upon and contrasts with earlier WPF/Silverlight development. Using outstanding code examples, he shows how to make the most of new platform features including integrated social networking and search, contracts, charms, and tiles. Designing Windows 8 Metro Applications with C# and XAML covers theentire application lifecycle, from planning and MVVM-based design through coding, testing, and beyond. Throughout, Likness addresses crucial development challenges that have only been discussed on MSDN, blog posts, and Twitter feeds
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    January 1, 2012
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    Microsoft Windows Development
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Jeremy Likness is a principal consultant at Wintellect, LLC. He has worked with enterprise applications for more than 20 years, 15 of those focused on web-based applications using the Microsoft stack. An early adopter of Silverlight 3.0, he worked on countless enterprise Silverlight solutions, including the back-end health monitoring system for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and Microsoft’s own social network monitoring product called “Looking Glass.” He is both a consultant and project manager at Wintellect and works closely with Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft. He is a three-year Microsoft MVP and was declared MVP of the Year in 2010. He has also received Microsoft’s Community Contributor award for his work with Silverlight. Jeremy is the author of Designing Silverlight Business Applications: Best Practices for Using Silverlight Effectively in the Enterprise(Addison-Wesley). Jeremy regularly speaks, contributes articles, and blogs on topics of interest to the Microsoft developer community. His blog can be found at http://csharperimage.jeremylikness.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (January 1, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 351 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321822161
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321822161
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.34 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches
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Jeremy Likness is a form 8-year Microsoft MVP (Windows Development, Visual Studio and Developer Technologies) and was named MVP of the Year in 2010. He is a cloud developer advocate for Azure at Microsoft. He has 20 years of experience developing enterprise applications across multiple verticals including insurance, health and wellness, financial, supply chain management, and mobility. Jeremy has spent the past 15 years building highly scalable web-based commercial solutions using the Microsoft technology stack. He is the creator of the popular MVVM framework Jounce and an open source Silverlight Isolated Storage Database System called Sterling. Likness speaks and blogs frequently on Windows 8.1, AngularJS, MVC, JavaScript, and related Microsoft technologies.

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Customers find the book well-written and authoritative. They also say it does not disappoint. However, some readers report very many errors in the source code. Opinions are mixed on the content, with some finding it good and detailed, while others say it's lite on details.

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Customers find the book well-written, authoritative, and easy to read. They also say it provides a viable foundation and is well formatted.

"...I found "Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML" to be well and authoritatively written, as well as insightful and practical...." Read more

"...This book does a nice job of explaining the reasoning behind WinRT technology by relating what's new to what the developer already finds familiar...." Read more

"...The book has come in very handy a few times. The kindle version is well formatted. It's a good purchase... the best one so far." Read more

"...yet, I will recommend this book because it will give the reader a viable foundation." Read more

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Customers find the book does not disappoint, and is a good purchase. They also say it's an excellent book for upscaling to Windows Store apps.

"...The kindle version is well formatted. It's a good purchase... the best one so far." Read more

"...This book does not disappoint. Can't go wrong with his work in this book. Thanks Jeremy!" Read more

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Customers are mixed about the content. Some find the book has a good level of detail, insight, and practicality. They also say it's an easy read and provides a nice getting-started guide for developers. However, some customers find the content confusing, incomplete, and not introduced in a structured manner. They say the book provides sub-par hands-on examples and does not spend enough time explaining the samples.

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Customers find the code quality of the book poor. They mention that there are very many errors in the source code of the second chapter.

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Tukkie
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for upscaling to Windows Store apps
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2012
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This is not a book for beginners, new at C# and Visual Studio. It assumes you have a working knowledge of both. But if you have extensive experience with C# and earlier versions of Visual Studio (versions older than the new 2012 issue) and you find yourself getting dragged into the new world of writing Windows Store applications for touch enabled devices, using Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012, you will find this book to have enormous utility. You should also have at least a basic understanding of Windows Presentation Foundation apps, although the underlying XAML platform is covered well in the book.

One bit of advice: Download all the source codes for the examples in the book from the website given by the author. I advise you not to try and type it all in from the code in the book, like I did. I found a missing namespace in the book's very first example that took me a while to track down.

This is the book to buy if you are "upsizing" from traditional Windows applications to the new Store applications of Visual Studio 2012.

Good work Mr. Likness, and thanks for flattening the learning curve to Store apps for me!
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Alexis Rios
2.0 out of 5 stars ok to start but not too deep
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2013
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This is more like an introduction to Windows 8 App. You will get a history lesson of Windows development through the years, the book started nicely with the Image Helper app in a tutorial like fashion. The example throws an error (if you type the example as it is in the book), but author provided updated code. I got excited reading this chapter because of this tutorial step by step example, and I thought the book will continue this way all the way to the end, but no, that is it. Then you get random examples, author tells you to open the code and explains a few areas, but not the whole picture, so you keep wondering how this or how that works.

You need to read the example code and try to understand how things are connected. Especially things like the Visual State Manager on a Windows 8 app (Filled, Snapped, FullScreen), it looks like the app magically changes the view, but you have repeated code for each state and then things get hidden or displayed (there are some mentions, and you can figure that out reading the full code), but only devoted like 2 pages to the VSM, something that is very important. Doesn't give examples about doing something like this from scratch or how to modify the built-in templates. XAML section was brief, I know there are other XAML books, but there are many changes and specifics to the Windows RT apps, that I believe required more explanation than the one given. He touches the topics briefly, and lets you know that the option is there, but it doesn't go deep into almost any topic.

Another thing is that with the downloaded code examples, they include many custom helper classes. This is ok, but when you are trying to follow the book pages, and going through the code snippets, then if you are trying to write another sample app by yourself to do the proof of concept for each feature, then you cannot find those classes because they are not part of the core WinRT framework. So you need to copy and paste their own helper classes into your project. If instead you want to follow the book with the distributed examples, they only make sense, if before reading the book chapters, you have studied the downloaded code previously. This is fine again, but when you are trying to learn, this creates some confusion. They should have demonstrated all the features using the built-in classes and not custom classes.

There are many things that are mentioned and you get some paragraphs explaining more or less how they should work, but again very superficial

I am not saying this book is bad, it is an introduction and light foundation, but you need more compelling and tutorial like content to really learn. If you want to have an idea about how Win 8 apps work you can read this book. If you really need to write and understand in a detailed way how everything works and REALLY LEARN then get another book.
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B. Clay Shannon
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good breadth and depth
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2012
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This is the "Windows 8 Apps" (I like that designation better than "Windows Store Apps") book I've been waiting for - I've read three others that were released prior to the actual release of Windows 8 and suffered to one degree or another thereby (whether it was I, or the books, or both that suffered, I'll leave the interpretation to you, dear reder). This is the first full-length book about developing C#/XAML apps in Windows 8 (the three aforementioned were less than 100 pages each; this one is 340).

To thoroughly cover all aspects of Windows 8 development would take a book of several thousand pages, but Likness does the best he can in the relatively brief space he has: he "picks his battles" well, covering everything a developer needs to know to navigate through the radical and exciting new world of Windows 8; where supplementary detail might be helpful or necessary, he provides links to where such can be found.

I found "Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML" to be well and authoritatively written, as well as insightful and practical. I will, as the blurb from the foreword on the cover suggests, "Keep this book handy."

A final note about the book: the cover design is very apropos - it is in the "Windows Modern UI" (or whatever they're calling "Metro" this week), sporting tiles a la the Windows 8 Start screen and beautifully decorative typography.
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Alan J Poruban
1.0 out of 5 stars (To me) This book was very confusing
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2014
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Reading this book was very frustrating for me. Looking at the Table of Contents it appeared as if the chapters and sections were laid out in a clear manner, but when I finished reading many of the chapters I was confused. I wasn't sure I understood anything, as it seemed as if the author was just writing from his stream of consciousness. Most of the chapters started out ok but by the end he had munged in sometimes three or four different ideas or concepts and went on and on after he had already lost me. Although he seemed to understand what he was saying I had trouble following him.

Working with the code samples was difficult as I was confused from reading and when I looked at the code I wasn't sure what I was looking for. On the other hand some of them seem to be very simple.

I don't recommend this book. I put it down and bought another one which I won't mention here until I've read it.
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Reg
4.0 out of 5 stars Très bien
Reviewed in Canada on December 17, 2012
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Un bon livre pas trop épais (le code ne remplit pas le livre, il est disponible en téléchargement). Donne une excellente vue d'ensemble de Windows 8.
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Giacomo
4.0 out of 5 stars Un libro per sviluppatori che entrano nela mondo di WinRT
Reviewed in Italy on December 29, 2012
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Ho acquistato questo libro perchè è uno dei primi usciti sul mercato che tratta di Windows 8 Apps e C# + XAML.
Non ha deluso le mie aspettative anche se ritengo che a breve ci saranno guide molto più corpose che approfondiranno l'argomendo in modo ancora più dettagliato.
A chi ha fretta di iniziare a sviluppare apps per windows 8 consiglio questo libro. Ovviamente si suppone che il lettore non sia digiuno del linguaggio C# e XAML.
Le circa 350 pagine seguono un iter abbastanza logico e portano il lettore a sviluppare una app preconfezionata fino al momento della pubblicazione su windows store. Purtroppo questa è a mio avviso l'unica pecca di questo manuale. Come tanti altri manuali, basa molte spiegazioni su codice già pronto (mentre io sono un patito del passo per passo).
In conclusione posso tranquillamente consigliare questo prodotto a tutti coloro che vogliono iniziare la loro avventura di sviluppo su windows 8 e C#.
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Luca P.
3.0 out of 5 stars ottimo per un laboratorio pratico ma ...
Reviewed in Italy on December 29, 2012
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Il libro sarebbe ottimo come libro di riferimento per un laboratorio o delle lezioni pratiche, seguendo il testo con la presenza di un computer con caricati gli esempi del libro (che si possono scaricare dal sito) si riesce a capire qualcosa.
Se invece, come me, desiderate un approccio più narrativo/divulgativo, per capire di come funziona l'ambiente per poi passare alla pratica in un secondo momento ... beh semplicemente non è il libro giusto.
Gli spezzoni di codice riportati nel libro come esempi sono incompleti, nel testo vengono citate delle parti che sono solo nel progetto completo, per cui occorre sempre obbligatoriamente leggere ed avere davanti un computer con i relativi progetti ....
Inoltre il libro è molto sbrigativo per alcune cose che, essendo novità, andrebbero introdotte e descritte in maniera più dettagliata ed organica ... inoltre è troppo succinto e quindi non è neanche un buon libro di riferimento .... utile, ma nel complesso non mi ha entusiasmato ...
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Mr S. Wallace
2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 30, 2012
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This book was OK, but I know you get a lot better out there. Descriptions were bloated and didn't really get to the point at times. Would prefer more of a tutorial driven book that guides you or gives you examples, rather than an bloated description without a good practical example following.
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