Chapter 5. Promises in WinRT

In last four chapters, we spent time making our concept strong and our foundation of thoughts aligned to promise. From this chapter onwards, we will explore promise in different technologies. We will see how these technologies adopted the concept, the reasons why thy adopted it, and how long promise has been associated with these technologies. We will sample some of the code bases of related technologies in order to get firsthand knowledge on how to actually implement promise in real time.

An introduction to WinRT

Our first lookout for the technology is WinRT. What is WinRT? It is the short form for Windows Runtime. This is a platform provided by Microsoft to build applications for Windows 8+ operating system. It supports ...

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