Building Your First Windows Store App with XAML and C# (2013)

Microsoft Windows 8 introduces Windows Store apps (formerly known as Metro apps), which can be built with a variety of programming languages. In this course, David Gassner shows you how to pair XAML with C# to build a simple data-driven application. He provides a tour of the free Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8 and runs through a few Hello World exercises before demonstrating how to perform most of the basic app programming tasks with XAML and C#. The course describes how to acquire and display data, add an app bar, and use Windows 8 contracts to share assets with other applications.