Download from Wow! eBook Getting Started with Metro Style Apps Ben Dewey Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Kưln • Sebastopol • Tokyo Getting Started with Metro Style Apps by Ben Dewey Copyright © 2012 Ben Dewey All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472 O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use Online editions are also available for most titles (http://my.safaribooksonline.com) For more information, contact our corporate/institutional sales department: 800-998-9938 or corporate@oreilly.com Editor: Rachel Roumeliotis Production Editor: Melanie Yarbrough Proofreader: Melanie Yarbrough Cover Designer: Karen Montgomery Interior Designer: David Futato Illustrator: Robert Romano Revision History for the First Edition: 2012-07-23 First release See http://oreilly.com/catalog/errata.csp?isbn=9781449320553 for release details Nutshell Handbook, the Nutshell Handbook logo, and the O’Reilly logo are registered trademarks of O’Reilly Media, Inc Getting Started with Metro Style Apps, the cover image of an American Crocodile, and related trade dress are trademarks of O’Reilly Media, Inc Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks Where those designations appear in this book, and O’Reilly Media, Inc., was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in caps or initial caps While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher and authors assume no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein ISBN: 978-1-449-32055-3 [LSI] 1342718033 Table of Contents Preface vii Windows 8: A Quick Tour A User Interface for Touch Start Screen Start Bar Windows Programming Reimagined A New Native APIJ: The Windows Runtime Language Support Hosted Application Model Single File Deployment Windows Store Inside Metro Style Apps Application Bar Semantic Zoom Animation Outside Your App Tiles Pickers Charms Sensors and Devices Summary 8 8 10 11 11 12 12 12 13 Getting Started 15 Where Is the Hello World app? Bing Search API Getting Started: The BingSimpleSearch App Bing Search API Service class Calling the Bing Search API Wrapping Up the UI Running the BingSimpleSearch App 15 15 18 21 22 22 23 iii Download from Wow! eBook About the Author Ben Dewey is employed at Tallan as a Senior Software Developer where he consults on many projects around New York City, focusing on Architecture, Silverlight, ASP.NET, and jQuery He also works to develop Server Oriented Applications using WCF Ben strives to create SOLID applications of the highest craftsmanship while paying special attention to clean User Experiences (UX) Ben is currently a committer on the Apache Stonehenge project, and is actively involved in numerous community events, from speaking at local user groups and helping to organize the ALT.NET Meetup in NYC Download from Wow! eBook ... Getting Started with Metro Style Apps Ben Dewey Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Kưln • Sebastopol • Tokyo Getting Started with Metro Style Apps by Ben Dewey Copyright © 2012 Ben Dewey... Handbook logo, and the O’Reilly logo are registered trademarks of O’Reilly Media, Inc Getting Started with Metro Style Apps, the cover image of an American Crocodile, and related trade dress are trademarks... Windows Store Inside Metro Style Apps Application Bar Semantic Zoom Animation Outside Your App Tiles Pickers Charms Sensors and Devices Summary 8 8 10 11 11 12 12 12 13 Getting Started