The Settings charm provides a single place to access all settings relevant to the user's current context:
- System settings that always apply.
- App settings that let people control an app's access to devices and capabilities. These are brokered by the system.
- App settings that let people specify their preferences while using your app.
Try it out If you’d like to try working with app settings, download the Application settings sample or the hands-on labs for Windows 8. These labs provide a modular, step-by-step introduction to creating a sample Windows Store app in the programming language of your choice (JavaScript or C#).
In this section
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This Quickstart walks you through implementing the Settings contract by using HTML and the SettingsFlyout class for the Windows Library for JavaScript. | |
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This quickstart walks you through implementing the Settings contract using Windows Runtime classes. However, we recommend you should instead follow the steps in the Quickstart: Adding app settings using Windows Library for JavaScript. | |
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For Windows Store apps, all settings are applied as soon as the user changes their values. This model is important because the user can walks you through instantly committing settings using the WinJS settings Flyout and local application data. | |
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This topic describes best practices for using the Settings charm to display app settings. |
Build date: 11/29/2012
