Studio for WinRT XAML Russ Senior Developer Evangelist Greg Product Manager
Did you see Webcast Part 1 (chart, Tile, Collection View, Calendar, Chart, TileView) – Answers: live, recorded, neither, both How new to Windows 8 Dev are you? – Answers, brand new, 1, 2, 3, 4 or more months Do you have an app published in the Store? – Answers, yes, no, almost Have you downloaded the trial for Studio for WinRT XAML? (no time bomb) – Answers Yes – after watching webcast 1, yes - before watching, yes - did not watch, not yet Have you purchased Studio for WinRT XAML? – Answers Yes – after watching webcast 1, yes - before watching, yes - did not watch, not yet Skill set? – Multiple answers - C#, VB.net, C++, JavaScript, HTML5, none of the above Are you excited about publishing windows store apps? – Answers, Yes, maybe, no Poll questions
Skill Set New Devices – Surface Pro – wow! $$$ - The Windows Store on every device with a full commerce platform and 700 million potential customers with world wide distribution. Why you should be excited about publishing Windows 8 Store App?
Overview Descriptions, features & getting started for: – PDF Viewer – Date Time Editors – Input – Layout – FlexGrid Resources What you will learn today
Single XAML Code Base (for Windows Phone, WPF, Silverlight, and Windows 8 WinRT) Multi-target: Write once, reuse code Leaders in XAML market with Silverlight and WPF, now have the largest WinRT control suite Reduce development time Fills the gaps of the standard toolbox with rich data visualization and powerful line of business controls ClearStyle Technology WinRT controls have Touch Support and Modern- UI style C1 WinRT XAML Overview
Windows 8 Windows Store Application JavaScriptC#VB Studio for WinJS Studio for WinRT XAML
Demo of controls we will see today Control Explorer App
Load, View and Print PDF Files Multi-touch Gesture Support Horizontal Orientation Get Pages from PDF Find Text PDF Viewer
DateTime Editors Validate Input with Masking Allow Null Values Controls Included C1DateSelector C1TimeSelector C1DateTimeSelector C1DatePicker C1TimeEditor C1DateTimePicker DateTime Editors
2 controls for masked and numeric input Standard Format Strings – Phone numbers – Zip codes – Credit card numbers Include Prompts & Literals Numeric Range Watermark Support Input
Flowing Layouts Docked Layouts Uniform Grid Layouts Layout
Touch Support Flexible Data Binding Group, Sort and Filter Unbound Cell Editing Custom Cells Cell Merging Column and Row Headers Column and Row Freezing Autosize Rows and Columns Save to Stream FlexGrid
Complete API parity among all platforms Complete control set – Data visualization and line of business Feature by feature, most advanced charts! Unique and successful reporting story - PdfViewer Only from ComponentOne: – ClearStyle technology – Legendary FlexGrid Download Free Trial of Studio for WinRT XAML Today! (no time bomb) Summary – The ComponentOne Edge
WinRT XAML Part 3 – April 4 – Gauges – ListBox – Zip – TreeView Upcoming webcast! (see Feb 25 entry)
Webcast Part 1 recap blog: – Code samples – PowerPoint – Recorded Video WebCast Part 1 recap: (see March 11 entry)
Win a Surface!
See app built with it … Search in Store on “Excel Viewer”. Check out Spread WinRT control!
Menu - Allows you to add the classic "File" menu system to your Windows Store applications. PDF – This class library enables you to create dynamic reports or directly output your UI to PDF documents from your apps. TabControl - Need to organize your content? The new TabControl allows you to utilize available space by organizing content as tabs. RichTextBox - gives you rich, HTML text editing at your fingertips. Use this control to display Web content or as a rich text editor. Four new controls being released next week:
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