Microsoft® Visual C#® 2012 Step by Step

Part IV. Building Professional Windows 8 Applications with C#

The first three parts of this book focused on how to use C# to build applications and components. You now have a thorough grounding in the syntax and semantics of the C# language, so it is time to move on and examine how you can use this knowledge to take advantage of the features that Microsoft Windows 8 provides for building professional, responsive, great-looking applications.

With some minor exceptions, the content presented so far has been largely independent of the version of Windows you are using; all the examples and exercises have been tested and verified against Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows 8. The only requirement is that you have Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and the Microsoft ...