Chapter 1. Windows Store Apps
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Building our first Windows Store app
- Adding a splash screen (and app tiles) to our app
- Improving the application to make it compliant with the Windows 8 lifecycle model
- Improving our application tile
- Improving our application with toast notifications
Introduction
We are clearly speaking of a new, modern, and touch-friendly kind of application with the Windows Store apps style.
Windows Store app style application development, for the latest Windows 8 platform, is a very important part of this release of the .NET Framework 4.5.
We will explore Windows Runtime managed development in our development recipes. We also have the power of a very simple, well designed, and lightweight base class library ...
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