Thank you all for attending Session 7 of our WinRT Development Course. Live Tiles and Background Tasks should now be part of your daily vocabulary 🙂

Session Resources:

• DemoFinal.zip: Source code of the project we developed together.
• Presentation.pptx: The slide deck
• Session Recording (unfortunately the last 10 minutes are missing due to a failure in Expression Encoder. I apologize.)

Overview of sessions

The links below lead you to Meetup Events where you can RSVP. We look forward to seeing you at our next session!

1. Introductory Lecture (Nov 27th by Danny & Kevin)
2. Introduction to XAML and WinRT’s powerful Control Framework; (Dec 4th by Danny & Kevin Click here for the video recording)
3. Page-Navigation Model and Application Lifecycle (Jan 8th by Danny Click here for the video recording)
4. Fundamentals (Async/Await, WinRT API, Security) (Jan 15th by Kevin Click here for the video recording)
5. Settings and Search Contract (Jan 28th by Danny Click here for the video recording)
6. Share Contract (Feb 4th by Kevin Click here for the video recording)
7. Live Tiles and Background Tasks (March 18th by Kevin Click here for the video recording)
8. Orientation Handling and Proximity using Near Field Communication (NFC) (March 25th by Danny)
9. Introduction to ModelViewViewModel (MVVM) (April 8th by Danny)
10. InterKnowlogy’s WinRT MVVM Framework Session Part I/II(April 22nd by Kevin)
11. InterKnowlogy’s WinRT MVVM Framework Session Part II/II(May 6th by Danny)
12. Presentation of Hackathon Results + Certificate/Prize Giveaway(May 22nd by Danny and Kevin)

Impressions