2. The Deep End
In the last chapter we took a quick tour of the Win8 UI and explored some of the benefits it provides to your application. Starting with the next chapter, we’ll spend the next several hundred pages studying Win8 app development in detail.
But first, let’s take another tour. In this chapter, we’ll jump in at the deep end and build a complete Win8 app so that when we do start working on the details, you’ll know where and how they fit.
We’ll start by quickly building the project using one of the project templates provided with Visual Studio and then explore some of the new components of Visual Studio for Win8 app development. Then we’ll add a couple of items that allow your app to interface with Windows 8.1: a contract and a tile. ...
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