Implementing Contracts
Early in the chapter, we discussed interaction with charms on the start bar. Those interactions are handled in your app by implementing the appropriate contracts. There are several contracts your app can implement, with Search and Share being the most important.
Saying that a contract is “implemented” sounds like implementing an abstract interface, but in fact many contracts are implemented merely by taking two steps:
Let's step through a very simple case for working with the Search charm. This is by no means a full search implementation; it just shows the minimum code to detect when a Search has been requested and then do something in the UI.
First, start a new app with the Blank App template, and name it SearchContractExample.
To declare support for the Search contract, open the Package.appmanifest item in the project and go to the Declarations tab. It has a drop-down for the various declarations, and the Search contract is in the list. Figure 13.23 shows the Declarations page, with the list of available declarations dropped down.
To declare support for a Search contract, ...
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