Windows-8 Contracts

What is Contracts?

Basically Contracts means two party agreeing upon some terms to work with.  Here in Windows 8 we have 5 contracts which we can integrate with our own application this contracts also called Windows 8 Charms.

 

In this blog we are going to see how we can Integrate Search charms to our application .  Here I am going to build a small application which will take Search Query from User and search it in MS Bing and shows the result in Web View Control . Web View control is new to Windows -8

Here are the steps we need to do

1) First Create Blank Windows Metro Application.

2)  Add or Declare the Search Contract in  Manifest .

 

3) Creating a SearchPane

This class basically Represents and manages the search pane that opens when a user activates the Search charm. The search pane provides a consistent, touch-friendly search box and optional search suggestions

Event	Description
QueryChanged	Fires when the user changes the text in the search box.
QuerySubmitted	Fires when the user submits the text in the search box and the app needs to display search results.
ResultSuggestionChosen	Fires when the user selects one of the suggested results that was provided by your app and displayed in the search pane.
SuggestionsRequested	Fires when the user's query text changes and the app needs to provide new suggestions to display in the search pane.
VisibilityChanged	Fires when the user opens or closes the search pane.

4) Next we are going to implements 2 events Query Submitted and SuggestionsRequested  .

  Query Submitted event called when user search the

  .  

The SuggestionsRequested   will called when use start typing in Search box .

here is our suggestions collections

  public string [] mySuggestions = { "Rama","Baba","Krishna","Allah","Jesus"};

  protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)

        {

            var sp =SearchPane.GetForCurrentView();

            sp.QuerySubmitted += async  (s, args) =>

                {

                    var searchString = args.QueryText;

                    var bingurl = "http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=" + searchString;

                    //HttpClient httpReq = new HttpClient();

                    //httpReq.MaxResponseContentBufferSize = int.MaxValue;

                    //var htmlStr = await httpReq.GetStringAsync(bingurl);

                    this.Dispatcher.Invoke(Windows.UI.Core.CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal,

                        (sender, eargs) =>

                        {

                            mywebSearch.Navigate(new Uri(bingurl));

                        }, this, null);

                };

            sp.SuggestionsRequested += (s, args) =>

                {

                    args.Request.SearchSuggestionCollection.AppendQuerySuggestions(mySuggestions);

                };

        }

5) Here is XAML UI to display the Search Result in Web View Control.

<Grid Background="{StaticResource ApplicationPageBackgroundBrush}">

        <Border BorderBrush="Blue" BorderThickness="5" CornerRadius="10">

            <StackPanel>

                <TextBlock Text="Sreeni Metro Search Charms Contract Sample Application" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center"  FontFamily="Arial" FontSize="20"/>

            <WebView x:Name="mywebSearch" Height="660"/>

        </StackPanel>

        </Border>

    </Grid>

 

6) Now runt the application and bring the Search Charms pressing Windows+C key.

 

Now Enter the Search string you want to search in BING ( BeatINGoogle).

 

Here onwards I like to share my Own Tech Jokes  every Blog I publish .  You can do either  Ctrl-X or Ctrl-C But when you do please give Food or Water to person or planet.

 

JOKE :  Just Opening my Knowledge to Everyone.

Today my Friend called and told me he is looking for new gig because his contract was over. I gave him suggestion that  do not look for CLOUD COMPUTING jobs.   He asked me why ? I told him because it’s summer so (Hardly you see the clouds).

Nandri(Thanks)

Sreeni