Build Windows 8 Apps with Microsoft Visual C++ Step by Step

Chapter 10. Architecting a Windows 8 app

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

• Understand the general architecture of a Windows 8 app.

• Define the specific architecture you want for a Windows 8 app.

• Consume a remote service from a Windows 8 app.

This chapter provides some useful information about the general architecture of software solutions, with particular focus on those solutions that include a Microsoft Windows 8 app as one of the available presentation layers.

Why does this chapter reference .NET code?

This chapter presents samples in Microsoft .NET instead of native C++ code. The reason is that most of the libraries used for a complex distributed architecture are implemented in .NET and are not available as native code. Because the ...