Beginning Windows 8 Application Development

Part IV

Appendices

• Appendix A: Answers to Exercises
• Appendix B: Useful Links

A

Answers to Exercises

This appendix provides the answers to Exercises found at the conclusion of each chapter.

Chapter 1 Exercise Answers

Following are the answers to the exercises in Chapter 1.

Answer to Question 1

This operating system was Windows Phone 7, released in October 2010. Microsoft created it to utilize a first-class user (consumer) experience over any other operating system feature.

Answer to Question 2

Windows 8 style applications possess the full screen, thus allowing the user to focus on one application at a time. Because of this approach, there is no need for a window caption or a sizing border. A Windows 8 style application does not utilize any accessory (chrome) to manage the size or position of the application window.

Answer to Question 3

Following are the most frequently used programming languages for Windows:

• C, C++
• Visual Basic
• C#, Visual Basic .NET
• Delphi (Object Pascal)

Of course, many other programming languages are used for creating Windows applications, but they are not as frequently utilized as these. Other languages include F#, Python, Ruby, Perl, COBOL, FORTRAN, and several more.

Answer to Question 4

Web developers can use HTML5 and its powerful accessories, Cascading Style Sheets 3 (CSS3) and JavaScript, to create Windows 8 style applications. They can use exactly the same API as the other languages, so the HTML5 stack of languages can coexist with the others.

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