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About the Author Kraig Brockschmidt has worked with Microsoft since 1988, focusing primarily on helping developers through writing, education, public speaking, and direct engagement. Kraig is currently a Senior Program Manager in the Windows Ecosystem team working directly with key partners on building apps for Windows 8 and bringing knowledge gained in that experience to the wider developer community. His other books include Inside OLE (two editions), Mystic Microsoft, The Harmonium Handbook, and Finding Focus. His website is www.kraigbrockschmidt.com. 832
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Table of Contents Introduction ....
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WinJS Tools for Pages and Page Navi
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Chapter 6: Layout .................
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Design Guidelines for Settings ....
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Manipulating Audio and Video ......
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Managing Secondary Tiles ..........
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The User Profile (and the Lock Scre
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The Windows Store APIs ............
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Introduction Welcome, my friends, t
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I'm also assuming that your interes
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Acknowledgements In many ways, this
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Support for developers, however, ca
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technologies, including DirectX, XA
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The upload process will walk you th
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FIGURE 1-2 A typical app page in th
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do this, I’m sure!). In a hotel,
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The app host is more or less Intern
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Sidebar: Mixed Language Apps Window
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When snapped, on the other hand, ap
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Capability Description Prompts for
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Taking a Break, Getting Some Rest:
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So you might say, “Well, I should
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that the user has to configure the
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Fortunately, the Windows Store dash
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graphics called for in the design s
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4. After Visual Studio churns for a
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Add-AppxDevPackage. That batch file
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package, whereas a single / refers
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QuickStart #1: Here My Am! and an I
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FIGURE 2-8 Snapped wireframe (left;
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which we’ll instantiate a Bing ma
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orientation, screen resolution, and
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FIGURE 2-12 Full-screen landscape v
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What this means is that, for the mo
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Create the map (though the namespac
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Next, in the second parameter to po
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FIGURE 2-17 Setting the Location ca
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Here we’re providing capturePhoto
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the contract is an abstraction that
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Extra Credit: Receiving Messages fr
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Note that such apps might not be ab
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Chapter 3 App Anatomy and Page Navi
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content and controls from web servi
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Such capabilities are blocked becau
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Can you do any kind of dynamic page
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appdata. This happens via Windows.S
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I don’t know about you, but I rea
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telling you to not use it! After al
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App Activation First, let me congra
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In the table, note that 80% scale t
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Activation Code Paths As we saw in
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splashScreen SplashScreen Contains
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In truth, so long as the user keeps
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Of course, setPromise ultimately do
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previousExecutionState values are d
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object to which you can add whateve
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Because we stored lastPosition in s
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FIGURE 3-9 The output of the Simple
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What about launching from the previ
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For all other details on this funct
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The Navigation App Template, PageCo
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(function () { "use strict"; WinJS.
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}, ); if (that.pageElement.winContr
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Sidebar: Helping Out IntelliSense I
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thousands of items, where tapping a
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Completing the Promises Story Whew!
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mechanism on top of singular XHR op
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The story of controls in Windows 8
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Creating or instantiating HTML cont
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Hyperlink href, target Link text L
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defined as part of the WinJS.UI nam
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Clearly, then, the bulk of the work
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var element = document.getElementBy
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This example is taken directly from
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FIGURE 4-7 Expanding a WinJS contro
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Flexbox -ms-[inline-]flexbox (value
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Note Though not shown here, you can
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For the ToggleSwitch, win-* classes
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• If a WinJS.UI.Tooltip is gettin
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Custom Control Examples To see thes
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Between calendar.js and calendar.cs
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]]> Whe
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This would be appropriate if you cr
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Two-way: essentially one-way bindin
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The code for this can be found in T
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Sidebar: Data-Binding Properties of
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Implementing Two-Way Binding To imp
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• oneTime A function that just lo
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• Windows 8 apps have rich stylin
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Collection Control Basics To seek t
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indingList: bindingList, array: arr
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Now while the ListView control in S
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The header template in html/scenari
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In the modified sample I changed na
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} return groupCompareGlobalized(lef
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a function instead of a declarative
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var list = new WinJS.Binding.List()
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data-win-options="{ itemDataSource:
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e used anywhere it’s appropriate,
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If you were to provide your own nav
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sample code in this chapter’s com
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Because of data binding, changes to
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What is does have, however, is this
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What you then do inside the element
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• The groups themselves are all s
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and the current viewable area. Thou
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Styling Following the precedent of
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Technically speaking, the layout pr
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or you can set layout.groupInfo fro
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Using the first item’s dimension
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You can set a breakpoint in this fu
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Incremental Loading Apart from pote
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The yellow bars indicate execution
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If it’s not provided (as when the
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During initialization (outside the
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Chapter 6 Layout Compared to other
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that appear when needed through app
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Within the body of content, then, W
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} -ms-grid-columns: 120px 2fr 80px
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-ms-scroll-snap-x Shorthand to comb
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WinRT: filled -ms-view-state: fille
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Handling View States As I just ment
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var mql = window.matchMedia("(-ms-v
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individual items in snapped view. B
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FIGURE 6-5 Options for display size
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If your developer sensibilities obj
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Content goes here This is really
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Such a layout is most easily achiev
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Because the specs themselves are st
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/* In CSS */ #divMain { width: 100%
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CSS styles that are supported for W
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Within the activated handler docume
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Multicolumn Elements and Regions Tr
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FIGURE 6-9 CSS region chains to flo
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Chapter 7 Commanding UI For consume
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• Commands that can’t be placed
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which provide many specifics on pla
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Tip To prevent the app bar from app
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This example doesn’t provide any
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var appbar = document.getElementByI
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• afterhide occurs immediately af
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This button’s click handler uses
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In the extraClass properties we’v
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To provide graphics of your own, do
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It should come as no surprise by
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Flyouts and Menus Going back to our
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are optional with show. (Note also
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function confirmOrder() { bought =
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The point of this last example is t
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Also, go into css/header-menu.c
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In the contextmenu handler menu.sho
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Scenario 3 is identical to Scenario
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The app bar now appears as follows,
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This message will appear if the use
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Chapter 8 State, Settings, Files, a
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while our permanent home was being
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• Account and profile configurati
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By the way, you might have some rea
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var localSettings = Windows.Storage
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It is also possible to migrate app
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Tip There are some file extensions
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Sidebar: Closing Streams vs. Closin
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Using App Data APIs for State Manag
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efore setting up new defaults. As m
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Roaming State The automatic roaming
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good idea to not be too aggressive
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Each app-supplied command can do on
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There are two ways to implement thi
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function helpCommandInvoked(e) { va
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Programmatically Invoking Settings
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Sidebar: Changes to Permissions A c
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Think about this for a moment (as I
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eturns an appropriate StorageFile o
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function pickSinglePhoto() { // Ver
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When picking multiple files, the re
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indicate a new filename in which to
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scenario oriented on the music libr
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A QueryOptions is generally created
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The setPropertyPrefetch method goes
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What We’ve Just Learned • State
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Chapter 9 Input and Sensors Touch i
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• Second, when you need to handle
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One or more fingers touch the scree
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You might notice a conspicuous abse
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Note that this method has no effect
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• TouchCapabilities Properties ar
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Tip Pointer events won’t fire if
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Properties Description currentPoint
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The first step to receiving gesture
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• MSGestureHold occurs when MSPoi
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FIGURE 9-3 A conceptual representat
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FIGURE 9-4 The Input Instantiable G
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obviously a specific deceleration m
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• Process keydown, keyup, and key
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For passwords you get a key to hide
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keyboard sample. 50 Adding listener
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Standard Keystrokes The last piece
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FIGURE 9-9 The Input Ink sample wit
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(string), and timestamp (Date) prop
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Like all other WinRT APIs, however,
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Here’s an example of such code fr
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Chapter 10 Media To say that media
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movie.controls = true; document.get
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declared inline, created dynamicall
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} document.getElementById("r").styl
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function onImageError(source) { sou
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• By copying pixel data from a vi
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Video Element Extension APIs Beyond
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vid.msInsertVideoEffect("GrayscaleT
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elements with the same source. The
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in the background. As a developer,
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function soundLevelChanged() { //Ca
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Playing Sequential Audio An app tha
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need to bypass the audio element an
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To guarantee the ordering we use Pr
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Thumbnails First, StorageFile.getTh
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or combination of System.GPS.Longit
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} return degrees + "°" + minutes +
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Most of the displayImageUI function
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provides a specific BitmapEncoder i
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method can be called only once and
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Transcoding and Custom Image Format
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Transcoding happens either from one
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In Scenario 2, the sample always us
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Media Capture There are times when
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ecordLimitationExceeded Fired when
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} captureInitSettings.videoDeviceId
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} // Add the devices to deviceList
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Streaming from a Server and Digital
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Here’s how such apps generally wo
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Next you’ll want to wire up handl
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• WinRT provides a rich API for m
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necessary. In this way, excessive a
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The Control Panel setting can be ob
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screen; the Panel animations are fo
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want to chain or synchronize animat
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Create addToList animation. var add
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CSS Animations and Transitions As n
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Animations work in an opposite mann
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Keyframes, while typically defined
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FIGURE 11-2 Output of Scenario 3 of
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What’s more, requestAnimationFram
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Still, 20% is a lot of CPU power to
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Chapter 12 Contracts Recently I dis
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File activation (file type associat
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more specific. For instance, when a
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var dataPackageTitle = document.get
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The other interesting part of Scena
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When sharing an image, don't forget
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FIGURE 12-3 The Share content targe
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• Acknowledge user actions when y
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The key here is the args.detail.sha
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target app. If you’re using image
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FIGURE 12-7 Controls to create a qu
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The question is how to wire up comm
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The Search contract that makes this
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FIGURE 12-11 The Search declaration
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} } })); In the search activation p
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} }); Windows.ApplicationModel.Sear
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The request object also has a getDe
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Type to Search The final feature of
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egistered for that type, rather tha
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At the very bottom of this UI you c
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ecord a new sound. In such cases, h
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Activation of a File Picker Provide
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Windows.ApplicationModel.Activation
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A final note is that a file picker
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}; // Create a file to provide back
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The next step for the provider is t
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FIGURE 12-18 The provider sample’
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FIGURE 12-21 The provider sample’
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• If the UI status is visible, sw
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Just as the file picker contract al
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Using the Contact Picker Contacts a
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} } }); Contact Picker Providers On
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As you can see, the homeEmail field
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Chapter 13 Tiles, Notifications, th
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FIGURE 13-1 The typical default Sta
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Selecting an item on the Start scre
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In many ways, live tiles might redu
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toss up lots of superfluous toast,
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Yet Windows doesn’t want to force
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The third way an app can issue upda
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Providing both square and wide stat
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• arguments A string that’s pas
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function activated(eventObject) { i
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16 or fewer characters that is used
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Third, if you supply an image that
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arrive on a Windows 8 machine will
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The Notifications Extensions Librar
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The other bits of the manifest that
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In such cases it would be better to
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Windows.UI.Notifications.BadgeUpdat
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you’d use start time), or the pha
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Tip The tile and badge updaters are
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eturned from page requests, as we
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through the Web platform installer.
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Toast Notifications So far in this
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FIGURE 13-16 Issuing text toasts th
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supports addImageQuery for scale, l
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A scheduled toast is created using
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To update a tile, set a badge, or i
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Your app should go through this sho
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matter of sending an XmlHttpRequest
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In the running app, the pushnotific
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Background Tasks and Lock Screen Ap
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FIGURE 13-18 The manifest editor fo
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In this code, the BackgroundTaskBui
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var internetCondition = new backgro
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The Background task sample provides
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Note Working with the lock screen i
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Debugging Background Tasks By this
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• Periodic updates for tiles and
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Network Information and Connectivit
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networkstatuschanged event that we
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Note Windows Store apps written in
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Programmatically, as noted before,
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Although this option will not set u
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hundred kilobytes—if you know fro
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Finally, avoid using XHR for large
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Starting a download transfer happen
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There is also a variation of create
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operations—it is possible to crea
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); "form-data", "------------------
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Basically, you would change the pol
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Authentication, Credentials, and th
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The result from pickAsync, as given
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To clarify the relationship between
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There is one subtle difference betw
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Within the web authentication broke
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https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oau
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Single Sign On with Live Connect Be
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setAccountPicturesAsync (for provid
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And lastly it’s worth at least li
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} var scenario1Link = document.getE
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} return currentFeed.items[currentI
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When data arrives, the handler rece
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} // This is a helper function echo
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On the client side, StreamSocket ag
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And closing the socket in Scenario
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In the sample, we first create a Me
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} try { var size = dataWriter.measu
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What We’ve Just Learned • Netwo
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• Connecting with devices in the
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The XInput and JavaScript controlle
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function renderLoop() { var state =
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FIGURE 15-3 Sample device enumerati
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The Removable Storage sample, in Sc
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• Communications are supported on
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Advertising a Connection Making you
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Tap to Connect and Tap to Activate
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On a simpler note, publishing a URI
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FIGURE 15-5 Scenario 2 of the Print
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Print Document Sources No matter wh
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If you don’t add a handler for th
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The final bit to mention in the cod
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Indeed, when we speak of mixed lang
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Again, components can also make use
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Sidebar: WinRT Components vs. Class
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Once you add the name of a class an
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With the basic mechanics worked out
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As we did with C#, let’s start by
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Comparing the Results The Image Man
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} return sum; Running a count with
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Component Implementation • When c
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When this worker is started, the on
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FIGURE 16-4 A promise manages and i
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Note that Task.Run does not support
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As with C#, there are additional st
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public IAsyncOperation ConvertPixel
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method called ConvertGrayscalFileAs
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Event names, on the other hand, are
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One challenge, as we saw in the qui
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The Building your own Windows Runti
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• Check against an encrypted lice
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Chapter 17 Apps for Everyone: Acces
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Your App, Your Business If you chec
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FIGURE 17-1 Creating an app package
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desktop applications and distribute
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means is that if you want to promot
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You should also strongly consider m
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• In-app purchases through the Wi
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That said, WinRT provides for the f
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When your app accesses CurrentAppSi
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} }); currentApp.licenseInformation
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You won’t hit your breakpoint imm
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If you’re using a custom commerce
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You might have noticed that a Produ
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Page 823 and 824: Localization Wrap-Up Well, we’re
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