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Author: Charles Petzold
ISBN : 0735671761
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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 focuses on creating Windows 8 apps accessing the Windows Runtime with XAML and C#. The book also provides C++ code samples. The Sixth Edition is 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.
Direct download links available for Free Programming Windows: Writing Windows 8 Apps With C# and XAML [Paperback]
- Paperback: 1136 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Press; 6th edition (February 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0735671761
- ISBN-13: 978-0735671768
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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I have to take exception to the glowing reviews of this book. While it demonstrates Petzold's formidable command of Windows 8 UI programming, this book doesn't really tell you what you need to know to write commercially successful apps. The majority of this book's 1136 pages consist of Petzold rambling on about topics that he, himself, finds interesting: font pitch, pixel placement, obscure XAML attributes.
In some sense, the book is trapped in a 1990 model of software development.
So what's missing?
- No real discussion of tying an app to Cloud services, other than a cut-and-paste sample using Bing maps. These days, most real apps are integrated with some kind of web or Cloud service. Gone are the days when an app was just a standalone component running on the desktop.
- Along those same lines, no discussion of how to approach multi-platform issues. Sure, it's a Windows book, but most real apps have iOS and Android versions, too. Is there some design or engineering strategy I can use to maximize the reuse of resources? This book assumes that Windows is the only environment in the world.
- Almost no mention of the app capabilities model. Basically, Petzold throws in descriptions of any capabilities needed by one of his example programs. ("Remember to set the BLAH capability if you want this to run.") Choosing the proper, minimal set of capabilities for your app is a big deal.
- Not much discussion of performance. A little bit of generic advice ("use non-UI threads for heavy computation"), but nothing substantive about designing apps for good performance under Windows 8.
- Very little about non-UI Win RT object classes.
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