Window Application Development Report

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Contents

1. INTRODUCTION...5

2.

ABOUT COMPANY...6

3.DETAILS OF THE PROGRAM.7

4.TRAINING MODULES..7

I.UNDERSTANDING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

REQUIREMENT8

II. GENERATING SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION

REPORT.8

III.

DESIGNING GUI..9

A.SCREENSHOTS OF APPLICATION10

IV. DEVELOPMENT OF APPLICATION...13

A.MVC ARCHITECTURE.13

B.WEB-API.15

C.SQL SERVER.16

D.AZURE17

E.

ELEMENTS USED IN PROJECT..18

V. APPLICATION TESTING AND VERIFICATION23

VI. FINALIZING APPLICATION23

5.CONCLUSION..24


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INTRODUCTION

We were admitted to study the Windows Store Application

Development. We were taught SDLC for a Windows Store Application

Development. Windows Store Applications are the applications that

targeted to Windows 8/8.1/10 platform. Windows Store Apps are

Windows Runtime-based app. These applications provide an integrated

environment for users to interact with the system to get a desired

output.

We were assigned to Media Player App and were asked to develop an

application.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you

desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you

will.Youll learn how to create an project and run a debuggable version

of the app. You'll also learn some fundamentals of Android and IOSapp design, including how to build a simple user interface and handle

user input.

While discussing app development solutions offered by us at company

are formidable that make myriad tasks easier than otherwise. We

provide custom design, development, and support packages to our

business customers who want their applications to look attractive and

be perfectly usable.


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DETAILS OF THE PROGRAM AND

PROJECT

Name of the program:

Windows Store App Development Training Name of the

project:

MEDIA PLAYERThis app is capable of playing video file.

Description:Windows Store App Development Training is training program to

give detailed knowledge of development cycle of a Windows Store

App. A Windows Store App is an application software that is available

for download from Microsoft Windows Store. It can either be paid orfree as per the developers wish. Windows Store Apps are meant to run

on Windows 8/8.1/10. This training program was fully oriented to

development of a Windows Store App. It covered all the modules that

are required in SDLC life cycle of a Windows Store App.

Training Modules: Understanding Software Development Requirement

Generating Software Specification Report

Designing GUI

Development of Application

Application Testing

Application Verification

Finalizing Application


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Understanding Software Development

Requirement

This phase involves understanding of the requirement of the project.

This helps in observing and study of project to collect information

required for the development of the application software. Software

Development Requirement states the requirement like tools required

for development, operating system, hardware requirements, software

specification, etc.

In Project Vote India the Software Requirements could be stated as

follows:

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Visual Studio

Adobe Photoshop

SQL Server

Microsoft Azure Application Specification

Generating Software Specification Report

In this phase of SDLC, a report is generated which contains all the

necessary information to carry the project forward.

This report acts as a reference for the project life cycle. The report

contains all the information and methodology for each and every

module of the project.


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Designing GUI

GUI or Graphical User Interface is a type of interface that allows users

to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual

indicators such as secondary notation, as opposed to textbased

interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation. GUIs were

introduced in reaction to the perceived steep learning curve of

command-line interfaces (CLIs), which require commands to be typed

on the keyboard.

The actions in a GUI are usually performed through direct

manipulation of the graphical elements. In addition to computers, GUIs

can be found in hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media

players, gaming devices and smaller household, office and industry

equipment. The term "GUI" tends not to be applied to other

lowresolution types of interfaces with display resolutions, such as

video games.


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Screenshots of Media Player App


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DEVELOPMENT OF APPLICATION


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Development phase is very important phase of Application

Development Life Cycle. In this phase all the function algorithms are

implemented and added to the application.

This application is based on MVC architecture of software

development. This application also uses Web-API, SQL Server and

Azure.

MVC Architecture

MVC is one of three ASP.NET programming models.

MVC is a framework for building web applications using a MVC

(Model View Controller) design:

The Model represents the application core (for instance a list of

database records).

The View displays the data (the database records).

The Controller handles the input (to the database records).

The MVC model also provides full control over HTML, CSS, and

JavaScript.


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The MVC model defines web

applications with 3 logic

layers:

The business layer (Model

logic)

The display layer (View logic)

The input control (Controller

logic)

The Modelis the part of the application that handles the logic for the

application data.

Often model objects retrieve data (and store data) from a database.

The Viewis the parts of the application that handles the display of the

data.Most often the views are created from the model data.

The Controller is the part of the application that handles user

interaction.

Typically controllers read data from a view, control user input, and

send input data to the model.

The MVC separation helps you manage complex applications, becauseyou can focus on one aspect a time. For example, you can focus on the

view without depending on the business logic. It also makes it easier to

test an application.

The MVC separation also simplifies group development. Different

developers can work on the view, the controller logic, and the business

logic in parallel.


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Modelviewcontroller(MVC) is a softwarearchitectural pattern for

implementinguser interfaces. It divides a given software application

into three interconnected parts, so as to separate internal

representations of information from the ways that information is

presented to or accepted from the user.

Traditionally used for desktop graphical user interfaces, this

architecture has become extremely popular for designing web

applications.

Web-API

ASP.NET Web API is a framework that makes it easy to build HTTP

services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and

mobile devices. ASP.NET Web API is an ideal platform for building

RESTful applications on the .NET Framework.

HTTP is not just for serving up web pages. It is also a powerful

platform for building APIs that expose services and data. HTTP is

simple, flexible, and ubiquitous. Almost any platform that you can

think of has an HTTP library, so HTTP services can reach a broad range

of clients, including browsers, mobile devices, and traditional desktop

applications.

ASP.NET Web API is a framework for building web APIs on

top of the .NET Framework. In this tutorial, you will use ASP.NET

Web API to create a web API that returns a list of products.
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SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management systemdeveloped byMicrosoft. As adatabase server, it is a software product

with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by

othersoftware applications which may run either on the same computer

or on another computer across a network (including the Internet).

Microsoft markets at least a dozen different editions of Microsoft SQL

Server, aimed at different audiences and for workloads ranging from

small single-machine applications to large Internet-facing applications

with manyconcurrent users.

SQL Server uses as its primary query languages T-SQL and ANSI

SQL.

SQL Server 2014 accelerates mission critical applications with a new

in-memory OLTP engine that can deliver up to 30x transactional

performance gains. For data warehousing, the new updatable in-

memory columnstore can query 100x faster than legacy solutions. SQL

Server also delivers peace of mind as the most secure database five

years in a row. (National Institute of Standards and TechnologyComprehensive Vulnerability Database 4/17/2013, Market share from

IDC 2013)

Get to insights faster with a complete BI platform that speeds up how

you access, analyze, clean and shape both internal and external data.

With SQL Server 2014 and Microsoft Power BI, it is easy to connect
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every user in an organization to the right data they need to make better

decisions, faster.

SQL Server 2014 was designed to work in a hybrid environment that

spans on-premises and the cloud. New tools in SQL Server and

Microsoft Azure make it even easier to build patching, backup and

disaster recovery solutions with Microsoft Azure. These tools provide

an easy on-ramp to the cloud for on-premises SQL Server databases,

enabling customers to use their existing skills to take advantage of

Microsofts global datacenters.

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure,

created by Microsoft, for building, deploying and managing

applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed and Microsoft partner hosted datacenters. It provides both

PaaS and IaaS services and supports many different programming

languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific

and third-party software and systems. Azure was announced in October

2008 and released on 1 February 2010 as Windows Azure, before being

renamed to Microsoft Azure on 25 March 2014.

Microsoft Azure uses a specialized operating system, called Microsoft

Azure, to run its "fabric layer": a cluster hosted at Microsoft's data

centers that manages computing and storage resources of the computers

and provisions the resources (or a subset of them) to applications

running on top of Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure has been

described as a "cloud layer" on top of a number of Windows Server

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Hyper-V, known as the Microsoft Azure Hypervisor to provide

virtualization of services.

Scaling and reliability are controlled by the Microsoft Azure Fabric

Controller so the services and environment do not crash if one of theservers crashes within the Microsoft data center and provides the

management of the user's web application like memory resources and

load balancing.

Azure provides an API built on REST, HTTP, and XML that allows a

developer to interact with the services provided by Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft also provides a client-side managed class library which

encapsulates the functions of interacting with the services. It alsointegrates with Microsoft Visual Studio, Git, and Eclipse.

ELEMENTS USED IN PROJECT

Splash Screen

As we now know what the splash screens are, we'll now see

how to add them in our projects. Step 1: Open the

Package.appxmanifest file which contains the capabilities and

other assets of the app. Step 2: Under the heading

Visual Assets, upload all the logos, store logos, badge logos and splash

screens according to the size specified. NOTE: You should have all theimages prepared beforehand to to reduce time consumption.


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Step 1: On the Project tab at the top, under the Store heading, click on

the Create App Packages and follow the instructions on the screen.

You will have to open up your developer account for this. Login to your

account and follow the steps. You'll get a screen asking for the name

of app package and app name. Reserve it and go next.


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To locate the package while uploading onto the store, you'll go to the

location where the project is saved on your hard drive and click on the

folder other than the sln file. Go inside app packages. There you'll find

some files with .appxupload extension. The latest version of this file is

the file package to be uploaded on the store.

Hop you might have got the idea how to upload these packages on the

store. In the next blog we'll discuss about adding button controls. Till

then STAY TUNED!!

Button

To add a button, we will again work on the file with .xaml extension.

Drag and drop the button tool from the toolbox into the designer

window.


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ListView

To add a ListView in xaml:1.Add a ListView control to a parent

container. 2.To assign a name to the list view, set the x:Name attribute

to a string value.

To refer to a control in code, it must have a name. Otherwise, a name

is not required. 3.Add items to the list view by populating the Items

collection or by binding the ItemsSource property to a data source.

Here's an example of how to populate the Items collection in XAML.

Item 1

Item 2

Here's an example of how to bind the ItemsSource to a collection in

XAML. The ItemsSource is bound to the DataContext of the ListView.

4.To perform an action when the list view selection changes, add a

handler for the SelectionChanged event. In the SelectionChanged event

handler, add code to perform some action.


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To check the selected item of the control outside of the

SelectionChanged event, use the SelectedItem or SelectedIndex

properties.

TextBox

1.Add a Textbox control to the container.

2.To assign a name to the Textbox, set the x:Name attribute to a string

value.

3.

To assign a label to the Textbox, set the Content property to a stringvalue. XAML

TextBox x:Name="textBox1"Text="I am a TextBox"TextChanged="TextBox_TextChanged"

This example shows a read-only TextBox with several properties set to

customize the appearance of the text. XAML.

MediaElement

Add media to your app by creating a MediaElement object

in XAML and set the Source to a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

that points to an audio or video file.

Here is some code that creates a MediaElement and sets its Source

property to the URI of a video file. The MediaElement begins playing

when the page loads. To suppress media from starting right away, you

can set the AutoPlay property to false.


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x:Name="mediaSimple" Source="Videos/video1.mp4"Width="400" AutoPlay="False"/>

APPLICATION TESTING AND

VERIFICATION

This phase involoves thorough testing of the application for errors.

All the errors are identified and rectified to produce a fully functioning

good quality application.

This is the most crucial phase as during this phase only all the errors

and bugs are removed from the application.

FINALIZING APPLICATION

Finally, the application is ready to be published on the store. To

publish an application on the Windows Store one should have a

developer account. If not then one needs to buy a developer account

from Microsoft and then will be able to publish their application.


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CONCLUSION

Windows Store Application Development is easy and much more

presentable than desktop application.

Web-APIs play a vital role in modern day software development.

Azure is an excellent cloud platform. Visual Studio makes it very easy to develop Windows Store App.

MVC Programming Model reduces complexity of the application

architecture.

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