CHAPTER 3

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Building a .NET App with WinRT

Chapter 2 focused on building components and accessing them across languages. For many scenarios, this will come in handy. However, the vast majority of development situations will use the controls and components included in Windows 8.

This chapter focuses on a few of the simpler controls and consumes them into a .NET app written in Visual C#. Developers with knowledge of WPF or Silverlight will find this chapter quite familiar.

In this chapter you will

  •    Build a Visual C# Metro style app
  •    Consume Windows 8 WinRT controls and components
  •    Use data binding to populate WinRT controls
  •    Use templating ...

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