Foreword

“In keeping with the intentions of this book of getting to the heart of the matter—and not wasting your time—I will not review the history of XAML nor the theory of XAML nor will I tell you why XAML is a great markup language. Instead I’ll turn immediately to writing programs for Windows 8 using XAML.” These are the first sentences that you’re going to read when you get to the first chapter of this book. And these sentences tell you everything that you need to know about both this book and the author.

The book tackles the major issues that you’ll need to understand in order to get started if you’re a XAML and C# programmer that wants to get down to business building your first Windows 8 apps. Does it tell you about the new UX requirements? ...

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