11. Windows Charms Integration
The windows runtime provides the opportunity to enhance the user experience an app running in Windows 8.1 offers, to include participation in several common Windows activities. Not only can this greatly enhance the overall usefulness of an app, but it also helps make common functionality more familiar and more discoverable for an app’s users: Over time, they will expect to find certain features exposed by the same Windows interactions instead of seeing them implemented piecemeal in different ways across different applications.
One of the places you can find this kind of common functionality is the Windows Charms. The Windows Charms are a set of Windows-provided controls that appear along the right edge of the screen ...
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