Windows 8 Metro Connected Apps
Pluralsight
Course Summary
This course takes an in-depth look at some of the key Windows 8 features that make Metro apps feel connected.
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Course Description
We dive into the HTTP client stack and learn how to access a cloud service from our Metro app, how to authenticate with a service using the WebAuthenticationBroker, and how to work with syndicated content using the new Syndication and AtomPub APIs. We explore Windows 8 background transfers, and learn how to control them, track them and reconnect to them across Metro lifecycle events from our foreground app. We discuss Windows live tiles and toast notifications, and how they keep our apps alive and connected. And finally we take a serious look at the push notification architecture, and the way push features can light up our app, for example by leveraging tile and toast updates to it. This course assumes basic familiarity with the Windows 8 platform, XAML UIs and the C# async pattern.
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Course Syllabus
Course Introduction- 5m 31s
—Accessing HTTP Services 2m 9s
—Background Transfers 1m 13s
—Tiles and Toast 1m 11s
—Push Notifications 0m 58sAccessing HTTP Services- 1h 10m
—Introduction 1m 46s
—Overview 2m 36s
—Interacting over HTTP 1m 58s
—HTTPClient 3m 34s
—Retrieving Data 2m 29s
—Demo: App Overview 2m 28s
—Demo: Retrieving Data 6m 0s
—Sending Data 1m 7s
—Demo: Sending Data 7m 27s
—HTTP Stack 1m 41s
—Demo: JSON Data 4m 42s
—Demo: XML Data 3m 42s
—WebAuthBroker 4m 12s
—Demo: Facebook auth1 2m 34s
—Demo: Facebook auth2 7m 9s
—Syndication API 2m 7s
—Demo: Accessing Feeds 7m 21s
—AtomPub API 1m 54s
—Demo: Updating Feeds 4m 9s
—Takeaways 1m 26sBackground Transfers- 50m 39sTiles and Toasts- 1h 3mPush Notifications- 59m 6s