Building BuildCast, with UWP Media App Best Practices

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Looking for a great sample app, that all buy itself is useful, yet one that also shows you how to use a ton of different OS features and frameworks? Fluent design system? Project Rome? Entity Framework? Media Playback? Notifications? Sharing? Inking?

//buildcast might just be that project for you!

Microsoft/BuildCast

Features

At a high level this sample demonstrates usage of:

• Fluent design system (Acrylic material, Reveal highlight, Connected animations, ParallaxView, an Adobe XD UX Prototype etc)
• XAML controls and features (NavigationView, swipe commanding, context menu with icons and SVG assets, LoadedImageService, conditional XAML etc)
• Media playback including picture-in-picture and fullscreen views
• Inking and smart ink
• Project Rome and AppServices
• Background download service, Entity Framework and SQLite
• Windows composition APIs (InteractionTracker, implicit animations, scene lighting)
• Notifications with progress bar
• Share contract

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Code at a glance

The table below shows the platform features used in the application and where abouts to find them in the sample.

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App details

Frameworks

Framework	Usage	Code file
Entity framework	ORM to store objects in SQLite	LocalStorageContext.cs
SQLite in UWP	Primary mechanism for persistence	N/A
.NET Standard 2.0	Provides System.Tuple	NowPlayingState.cs

App features

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