After spending most of the last 20 years looking for the intellisense after I hit a period, the XAML/C++ was a bit of surprise, not much though. It isn’t clear how this works unless you have worked through the SimpleBlogReader.
Here is what I did to create my Hello World app using XAML and C++, thank goodness that the presentation layer is soooo much better!
To get started, and I am doing this screen by screen, here is my initial starting of Visual Studio 11 Bet Express for Windows 8, I am also showing the exact version I am running, in the future, if you come across this blog, you will know that this is the Beta and what version.\
| Click on New Project and select the Visual C++/Windows Metro Style and Blank Application. I named my project: Hello Worm **************************** Visual Studio Version information: Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Version 11.0.50214.1 BETAREL Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.5.50131 BETAREL |
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Name your application
HelloWorld
Or similar
Then in your solution explorer click open the BlankPage.xaml |
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Add XAML code that looks like: Make sure to the format: x:Name=”txtBox” If you use the following: Name=”txtBox”
It might work a few times but it is unreliable, so don’t do it use the x:Name |
<Grid Background="{StaticResource ApplicationPageBackgroundBrush}"> <Button x:Name="btnClickMe" Content="Click ME" Height="100" Width="100" Click="btnClickMe_Click_1" Margin="10,26,0,642" /> <TextBox x:Name="txtBox" Text="See Me" Height="50" Margin="134,51,1111,667"/> </Grid> |
| Drag a button and a Textbox to the form, move them around to look like my screen or whatever you want: Make sure to name your textbox in the XAML code. Now press F7 to build your code, otherwise the intellisense will not add your textbox name. |
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| Click on the lightning bolt, this will show you the events associated with the button. Place your mouse in the Click or Tapped (which will work like Click with a mouse and tap with touch screen, so use that one). Type in a name, I typed in: tapHelloWorld |
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| The tapped event has been entered into the XAML, now you will need to add the instructions to the event. |
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Add this code to the tapHelloWorld event, between the braces |
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Run your program you should see a button and a textbox, click the button (or tap it if you have a touch sensitive screen, lucky you!)
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