This chapter took you through the process of building a Windows Store application that uses a third party API to access information over the Internet. The asynchronous programming features of the language make it very easy to implement these features.
Here are some ideas on how you can take the application you have built here further:
CreateUrl
method in ApiPhoto
)Grid App
project template and look at different Flickr API methods, such as flickr.photos.search
)ApiPhotos
and the ISupportIncrementalLoading
interface)Creating native applications that run on your local machine lets you optimize for hardware that is getting more powerful with every technology cycle. Using the new asynchronous programming functionality available to you in C# 5 will ensure that you can take advantage of that hardware. In the next chapter, we look to the cloud and build a web application using the ASP.NET MVC.