pluralsight-training.net: Windows 8 Metro Connected Apps

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.

Course Introduction 00:05:31
Part 1 02:09
Part 2 01:13
Part 3 01:11
Part 4 00:58

Accessing HTTP Services 01:10:22
Introduction 01:46
Overview 02:36
Interacting over HTTP 01:58
HTTPClient 03:34
Retrieving Data 02:29
Demo: App Overview 02:28
Demo: Retrieving Data 06:00
Sending Data 01:07
Demo: Sending Data 07:27
HTTP Stack 01:41
Demo: JSON Data 04:42
Demo: XML Data 03:42
WebAuthBroker 04:12
Demo: Facebook auth1 02:34
Demo: Facebook auth2 07:09
Syndication API 02:07
Demo: Accessing Feeds 07:21
AtomPub API 01:54
Demo: Updating Feeds 04:09
Takeaways 01:26

Background Transfers 00:50:39
Introduction 01:22
Overview 03:56
Bg Transfer API 04:09
Demo: Bg Download 04:32
Tracking Progress 02:03
Demo: Progress WinRT 05:49
Progress TPL 02:03
Demo: Progress TPL 02:22
Cancellation 01:54
Demo: Cancel WinRT 04:19
Demo: Cancel TPL 02:53
Demo: Pause resume 02:37
Demo: Uploading 03:57
Lifecycle 02:31
Demo: Reattaching 05:14
Takeaways 00:58

Tiles and Toasts 01:03:25
Introduction 01:26
Overview 02:43
App Tile 01:41
Demo: App Tile 02:53
Tile Notification 03:07
Tile API 01:08
Demo: Tile Notification 05:05
Demo: Square Tile Update 02:04
Tile Cycling 01:45
Demo: Cycling tiles 05:18
Badge Updates 01:43
Demo: Badge 03:11
Secondary Tiles 04:24
Demo: Secondary Tiles 06:00
Demo: Sec Tiles Update 04:47
Toasts 03:26
Demo: Raising Toast 05:22
Demo: Advanced Toast 06:23
Takeaways 00:59

Push Notifications 00:59:06
Introduction 01:55
Periodic Notifications 03:29
Push Overview 02:04
Architecture 03:23
Cloud Service 01:12
Demo: Recruit Service 03:44
WNS Channel 01:23
Demo: Registering with WNS 03:44
Demo: Registering with Service 04:14
WNS Authentication 01:49
Demo: Authenticating 06:48
Pushing Data 02:24
Demo: Pushing Data 06:22
Demo: Pushing Data2 04:26
Demo: Admin App 02:14
Demo: Secondary Push 03:16
Receiving Data 02:12
Demo: Receiving Data 03:36
Takeaways 00:51