Chapter 18

Programming Windows 8 Apps

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER:

  • How Windows 8 apps differ from desktop applications
  • What XAML is and how you use it
  • How you create the user interface for a Windows 8 app
  • The characteristics of the interface to the operating system for Windows 8 apps
  • How to create a project for a Windows 8 app
  • How to create the user interface for an application graphically and modify UI elements in C++ code
  • How to implement event handling
  • How you can animate user interface elements

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