In deze sessie laat ik aan de hand van vele demos zien hoe je Windows Phone en Windows 8.1 apps ontwikkeld met behulp van Blend for Visual Studio 2013.

2. Designing XAML Apps
using Blend for Visual
Studio 2013
Fons Sonnemans
@fonssonnemans

3. Topics
 Blend
 Layout Controls
 Basic Controls
 AppBar & CommandBar
 Animation
 Behaviors
 Styling & Templating
 Data Binding

4. Fons Sonnemans
•Software Development Consultant
• Programming Languages
• Clipper, Smalltalk, Visual Basic, C#
• Platforms
• Windows Forms, ASP.NET (Web Forms, MVC), XAML
(Silverlight, Windows Phone, Windows 8)
• Databases
• MS SQL Server, Oracle
• Role
• Trainer, Coach, Advisor, Architect, Designer, App Developer
•More info: www.reflectionit.nl

5. My Apps
Windows 8
Windows Phone
http://reflectionit.nl/apps

6. Device Window

7. Visual Studio versus Blend
Visual Studio
• Code Editing
• XAML Editing
• IntelliSense
• Formatting (Ctrl+E, D)
• Code Snippets (new in VS2013)
• Debugging
• Project Properties
• TFS Explorer
• Data Binding
• IntelliSense
• including Path (new in VS2013)
• Set Build Actions
Blend
• UI Design
• Guides
• Animations
• Styling & Templating
• Visual States
• Data Binding
• TFS Check in/out

8. In-Box Controls
Button
Checkbox Radio Button
Hyperlink Combo Box
Context Menu Flyout
List BoxFlip View
App Bar
Panning Indicator
Grid View
List View Semantic Zoom
Text Box
Progress Ring Progress Bar
Clear ButtonSpell Checking
Password Reveal Button
Rating Radio Button
Scroll Bar
Toggle Switch Tooltip

9. <Layout Controls />

10. Layout Controls
 Canvas
 Simplest, placement relative to two edges
 Not scalable
 Supports the following attached properties
 Canvas.Top, Canvas.Left, Canvas.Zindex
 StackPanel
 Horizontal or vertical stacking
 Grid
 Uses rows and columns
 Flexible Positioning (similar to tables in HTML)
 Supports the following attached properties
 Grid.Column, Grid.Row, Grid.Columnspan, Grid.Rowspan
 More
 Border, ScrollViewer, Viewbox, VariableSizedWrapGrid

11. Canvas
 Is a Drawing Surface
 Children have fixed positions relative to top-left-corner
<Canvas Width="250" Height="200" Background="Gray">
<Rectangle Canvas.Top="25" Canvas.Left="25"
Width="200" Height="150" Fill="Yellow" />
</Canvas>
The Canvas
The Rectangle

12. XAML - Attached Properties
 Top & Left properties only make sense inside a
Canvas
<Canvas Width="250" Height="200" Background="Gray">
<Rectangle Canvas.Top="25" Canvas.Left="25"
Width="200" Height="150" Fill="Yellow" />
</Canvas>

13. XAML - Attached Properties
=
<Rectangle Canvas.Top="25" Canvas.Left="25"/>
Rectangle rectangle = new Rectangle();
rectangle.SetValue(Canvas.TopProperty, 25);
rectangle.SetValue(Canvas.LeftProperty, 25);
=
Rectangle rectangle = new Rectangle();
Canvas.SetTop(rectangle, 25);
Canvas.SetLeft(rectangle, 25);

14. XAML - Syntax
 XAML is Case-Sensitive
 Attribute Syntax
 Property Element Syntax (<TypeName.Property>)
<Button Background="Blue" Foreground="Red"
Content="This is a button"/>
<Button>
<Button.Background>
<SolidColorBrush Color="Blue"/>
</Button.Background>
<Button.Foreground>
<SolidColorBrush Color="Red"/>
</Button.Foreground>
<Button.Content>
This is a button
</Button.Content>
</Button>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc189036(VS.95).aspx

15. StackPanel
 The StackPanel will place its children in either a
column (default) or row. This is controlled by the
Orientation property.
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
<Button Content="Button" />
<Button Content="Button" />
</StackPanel>

16. Nested Stackpanels
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Center">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="0,0,0,12">
<TextBlock Text="Username" FontSize="48" Width="240"
TextAlignment="Right" Margin="0,0,20,0"/>
<TextBox FontSize="48" Width="300"/>
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="0,0,0,12">
<TextBlock Text="Password" Margin="0,0,20,0" FontSize="48"
Width="240" TextAlignment="Right"/>
<PasswordBox Margin="0" FontSize="48" Width="300"/>
</StackPanel>
<Button Content="Login" HorizontalAlignment="Left"
Margin="257,0,0,0" FontSize="48"/>
</StackPanel>

17. Grid
 The Grid is a powerful layout container.
 It acts as a placeholder for visual elements
 You specify the rows and columns, and those define the cells.
 The placement of an element in the Grid is specified using attached properties that are
set on the children of the Grid:
 Supports different types of row and column sizes in one Grid:
 Pixel size: Fixed value in pixels
 Auto size: The cell has the size of it’s contents
 Star size: whatever space is left over from fixed- and auto-sized columns is allocated to
all of the columns with star-sizing
<Image Grid.Column="3" Source="demo.png" Stretch="None"/>

18. Layout Properties

19. <Basic Controls />

20. TextBox
 Normal
 Multi Line
 Border & Colors
<TextBox Text="Hello World" TabIndex="4" />
<TextBox Text="Hello World" Height="200"
AcceptsReturn="True" />
<TextBox Text="Hello World"
BorderThickness="3"
BorderBrush="Black"
SelectionHighlightColor="Blue"
Background="LightGray" />

21. TextBox
 No Clear Button (“Blend default”)
 InputScope
<TextBox Text="Hello World"
TextWrapping="Wrap" />
<TextBox InputScope="Search" />

22. Image
 Supports BMP, JPG, TIF and PNG
 Source property
 External, starts with ‘http://’
 App
 Referenced Class Library
 Local storage
<Image Source="http://www.server.com/Images/Windows8.png" />
<Image Source="/MyImages/Windows8.png" />
<Image Source="ms-appx:///ClassLibrary1/MyImages/Windows8.jpg" />
<Image Source="ms-appdata:///local/MyFolder/Windows8.jpg" />

23. <AppBar vs
CommandBar />
AppBarButton, AppBarToggleButton,
AppBarSeparator

24. AppBar CommandBar
 Properties
 Foreground
 Background
 IsSticky
 IsOpen
 Children
 Events
 Opened
 Closed
 Properties
 Foreground
 Background
 IsSticky
 IsOpen
 PrimaryCommands
 SecondaryCommands
 Events
 Opened
 Closed

25. AppBarButtons
• Windows 8.1 introduces new controls for XAML that let you
more easily create app bar command buttons that reflect the
proper design guidelines and behaviors: the AppBarButton,
AppBarToggleButton, and AppBarSeparator controls.
• App bar buttons differ from standard buttons in several ways:
• Their default appearance is a circle instead of a rectangle.
• You use the Label and Icon properties to set the content instead of the
Content property. The Content property is ignored.
• The button's IsCompact property controls its size.

26. AppBarButtons
• FontIcon
• The icon is based on a
glyph from the specified
font family.
• BitmapIcon
• The icon is based on a
bitmap image file with
the specified Uri.
• PathIcon
• The icon is based on
Path data.
• SymbolIcon
• The icon is based on a
predefined list of glyphs
from the Segoe UI
Symbol font.

27. AppBarButtons Links
• Images & Paths (Vectors)
• http://modernuiicons.com
• http://thenounproject.com
• http://www.thexamlproject.com
• http://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/metrostudio
• Symbols
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj841126.aspx
• http://www.geekchamp.com/icon-explorer/introduction
• http://www.fontello.com/
• http://fontastic.me

28. <Resources />

29. Resources
 Reusable objects such as data, styles and templates.
 Assigned a unique key (x:Key) so you can reference
to it.
 Every element has a Resources property.
 Nesting Support
 All static resources are loaded on page load
 Resource is loaded even if not used
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30. Convert to New Resource…

31. Resources in Blend
 Menu Window - Resources
 Shows all resources of all open XAML documents
 Link to Resource Dictionary
 Edit Resource
 Rename Resource
 Move Resource
 Delete Resource
 Apply Resource by Drag & Drop
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32. Merged Resources
 Store resources in external files
 Declare once, use many times
 Makes XAML shorter and easier to read
 Can be stored in external assemblies
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33. <Animations &
Storyboards />

34. Key Frame Concept
 XAML supports key frames
 A key frame defines an objects target value on a
moment in an animation.
 A key frame has an interpolation method.
 A Key Frame target can be a:
 Double (X, Y, Height, Width, Opacity, Angle, etc.)
 Color (Fill, Stroke, etc.)
 Object (Visibility, Text, etc)

35. Storyboards
 Creating a storyboard in Expression Blend
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36. Storyboards
 The Storyboard object has interactive methods to
Begin, Pause, Resume, and Stop an animation.
public void ButtonStart_Click(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) {
if (myStoryboard.GetCurrentState() == ClockState.Stopped) {
myStoryboard.Begin();
}
}
public void ButtonPause_Click(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) {
myStoryboard.Pause();
}
public void ButtonResume_Click(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) {
myStoryboard.Resume();
}
public void ButtonStop_Click(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) {
myStoryboard.Stop();
}

37. <Behaviors />

38. Behaviors

39. ShowMessageBox Action
public class ShowMessageAction : DependencyObject, IAction {
#region Text Dependency Property
public string Text {
get { return (string)GetValue(TextProperty); }
set { SetValue(TextProperty, value); }
}
public static readonly DependencyProperty TextProperty =
DependencyProperty.Register("Text",
typeof(string),
typeof(ShowMessageAction),
new PropertyMetadata(string.Empty));
#endregion Text Dependency Property
public object Execute(object sender, object parameter) {
#pragma warning disable 4014
new MessageDialog(this.Text).ShowAsync();
#pragma warning restore
return null;
}
}
Links:
• http://reflectionit.nl/Blog/2013/windows-8-xaml-tips-creating-blend-behaviors
• http://blendbehaviors.net/

40. <Styling and
Templating />

41. Styling and Templating
 XAML = UI flexibility
 Customize the look of an application without
changing it’s behavior
 Styling = Small Visual Changes on an Element (Font, Background Color, etc.)
 Templating = Replacing Element’s entire Visual Tree

42. Styling
<Page.Resources>
<Style x:Key="HollandButtonStyle" TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="#FFFF9E00"/>
<Setter Property="FontSize" Value="24"/>
<Setter Property="FontStyle" Value="Italic"/>
</Style>
</Page.Resources>
<Grid>
<Button Content="Button"
Style="{StaticResource HollandButtonStyle}"/>
</Grid>

43. Implicit Styling
 If you omit the Style’s Key and specify only the
TargetType, then the Style is automatically applied
to all elements of that target type within the same
scope (it is implicitly applied).
 This is typically called a typed style as opposed to a
named style.
<Style TargetType="TextBox">
<Setter Property="FontFamily" Value="Arial Black"/>
<Setter Property="FontSize" Value="16"/>
</Style>

44. BasedOn Styling
<Page.Resources>
<Style x:Key="HollandButtonStyle" TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="#FFFF9E00"/>
<Setter Property="FontSize" Value="24"/>
<Setter Property="FontStyle" Value="Italic"/>
</Style>
<Style x:Key="GermanButtonStyle"
TargetType="Button"
BasedOn="{StaticResource HollandButtonStyle}">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="White"/>
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Black"/>
</Style>
</Page.Resources>
<Grid >
<Button Content="Button"
Style="{StaticResource GermanButtonStyle}"/>
<Button Content="Button"
Style="{StaticResource HollandButtonStyle}"/>
</Grid>

45. Templating

46. Data Binding

47. Data Binding
 Data binding is the process that establishes a connection, or
binding, between the UI and the business object which allows data
to flow between the two
 Enable clean view/model separation and binding
 Change UI presentation without code-behind modifications
 Every binding has a source and a target
 Source is the business object or another UI element
 Target is the UI element
 Binding Expressions can be one way or two way and supports
validation & converters

48. Element to Element Binding
 Element binding is performed in the same manner as
Data Binding with one addition: the ElementName
property. ElementName defines the name of the
binding source element.
<Grid>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Value, ElementName=mySlider}"
FontSize="32"/>
<Slider x:Name="mySlider" Maximum="10" Value="6" />
</Grid>

49. Data Window – Sample Data

50. Recap & Questions

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