Business case 2 - developing the Band 2 application

Let's see how to develop the Band 2 application by performing the following steps:

1. To develop a UWP application that interacts with the Microsoft Band 2 fitness tracker, we have to open Visual Studio and create an application by navigating to New | Project… | Windows | Blank App (Universal Windows).

2. Now we need to download from NuGet Package Manager (in Visual Studio, navigate to Tools | NuGet Package Manager) the Microsoft Band SDK:

   

   Now our solution appears as follows:

   

   In the MainPage.xaml file, we have the UI definition (as previously described):

           <Grid Background="{ThemeResource    
           ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}"> 
             <Grid.Resources> 
               <Style TargetType="TextBlock" BasedOn="{StaticResource   
               HeaderTextBlockStyle}"> 
                 <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Center" /> 
                 <Setter Property="VerticalAlignment...