Design item Metro App for Windows 8: USER EXPERIENCE – PLM

 

 

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Metro, Metro Design, Windows 8, User Experience

Handles PLM states appropriately

To allow your users to switch across apps and feel like they never left your app, you must properly and efficiently handle the process life cycle management (PLM) events. At the highest level, you should:

Save transient state on suspend
Handle the resuming event, update the view if the content has changed since it was last visible to the user
Restore the transient state on launch event when the last known state was terminated

To learn more about PLM events, follow these guidelines for suspend and resume

Reference (HTML)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465088

Reference (XAML)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465088