Microsoft 70-485: Advanced Windows Store App Development Using C#

This course is designed for developers with two to five years of experience with C# and XAML applications, as well as experience with developing applications in accordance with Windows Store app guidelines.

The primary objectives of this course include:

• Creating and consuming background tasks
• Creating and consuming WinMD components
• Media capture with camera and microphone
• Gathering data from sensors
• Enumerating and discovering device capabilities
• Using contracts and charms to implement printing and Play
• Implementing Windows Push Notification Service (WNS)
• UI responsiveness
• Animations and transitions
• Creating custom controls
• Designing Windows Store apps for globalization and localization
• Data cache implementation
• Saving and retrieving files from the file system
• Securing app data
• Designing and implementing trial functionality in an app
• Designing for error handling
• Test strategy design and implementation
• Diagnostics and monitoring strategy design

Module 1

• Animated World: Animations and Transformations
• Ecosystem: Reviewing the World of Windows 8
• Getting Around
• The Search Feature
• Gestures
• Animatedly Speaking: Animations and Transitions
• Animation Support
• Theme Transitions
• The Eight Theme Transitions
• Layout Animations
• Theme Animations
• Triggers
• The Fourteen Theme Animations
• Custom Animation
• Independent vs. Dependent Animations
• Controlling Duration
• From and To
• Timeline Properties
• Animating Storyboards
• Property Paths
• Storyboards with Timeline Properties
• Custom Keyframe Animations
• Easing Functions
• Manual Animations
• It’s A Small World: Localization and Globalization
• Brand Recognition: Branding your App
• Branding Visual Elements
• Customizing the Splash Screen
• Section Review
• Section Lab: Application Animation

Module 2

• Where’s My Data?: Advanced Data Scenarios
• Advanced Data Scenarios: Data
• App Data
• User Data
• Network Data and Other Data Options
• Windows Storage API
• Caching Data
• Blog Reader
• Reduce Reuse Recycle: Creating Reusable Controls
• Creating Custom Controls
• Create A Windows Runtime Component
• Section Review
• Section Lab: Create a Custom Control

Module 3

• A Different Arrangement: Contracts 202
• Printing
• Registering for The Print Contract
• Changing Print Options
• Custom Print Options
• Printing with a Print Button
• Pushing: Push Notifications Services
• Implementing a Push Notification
• Authenticating to WNS
• Media: The PlayTo API
• Using PlayTo
• Web Cam Capture
• Camera Capture UI
• Background Tasks: An Introduction to Background Tasks
• Appropriate Scenarios
• Background Task Infrastructure
• Lifecycle and Background Tasks
• Background Task Implementation
• Progress Reporting and Cancellation
• Re-Association, Updates and Servicing
• Host Executable
• Background Task Class
• Adding a Background Class
• Resource Manager and Resource Constraints
• Background Task Best Practices
• Register a Background Task
• Updating Live Tile from Background Task
• Section Review
• Section Lab: Creating Update Notification for Live Tiles

Module 4

• Sensory Overload: Sensors and Different Devices
• Sensory Discovery: Windows Sensor Platform
• 3D Accelerometer
• 3D Compass
• 3D Gyrometer
• Inclinometer
• Ambient Light Sensor
• Orientation Sensors
• Simple Orientation Sensor
• A New Sensation: Geolocation
• Geolocation
• Bing Maps SDK
• Providing Directions
• Section Review
• Section Lab: Create Application for Bing Map SDK

Module 5

• Is it Safe?: Revenue and Security
• Generating Revenue
• Trial Versions
• In App Purchases and Advertising
• Price Tiers
• Getting Paid
• Preparing for Free Trials and In App Purchases
• Ads in Apps
• The Encryption Keeper
• Windows Authentication and Live Connect
• Password Vault
• Diagnostics: Profiling
• Analyzing Sampling DataSection Review
• Section Lab: Add Paid Features
• Program Closing

Course Delivery:    Online