Windows 8 Hands-on Experiment Tutorial: Introduction

Windows 8 Hands-on experiment

Learn to create a Windows application store application using C # and XAML

September 2012

Welcome!

This series of hands-on experiments will allow you to immerse yourself in the development of Windows 8 applications, specifically to develop a Windows application store application using C # and XAML.

When you have completed this series of experiments, you will create a beautiful and useful application: the Contoso recipe. The application will use some of the key new features in Window8. Through this series of experiments, you will learn a lot about creating excellent Windows application store applications.

Please take a moment to read this introduction, which will tell you more about the experiment and how to configure and use these experiments.

Note that the materials used in this series of experiments are subject to the terms of the license.html.

What's in the series

You have downloaded and unzipped the hands-on experiment, so you will have the following folders on your computer:

· Assets (assets)

· Lab 1-creating a Windows Store app (experiment 1-Creating a Windows App Store application)

· Lab 2-orientation, snapping, and semantic Zoom (experiment 2-direction, secondary screen and semantic scaling)

· Lab 3-searching and Sharing (experiment 3-search and sharing)

· Lab 4-app bars and Media capture (experiment 4-Application bar and medium capture)

· Lab 5-process Lifetime Management (experiment 5-process life-cycle management)

· Lab 6-settings and preferences (experiment 6-settings and preferences)

· Lab 7-tiles and Notifications (experiment 7-magnetic paste and notification)

· Lab 8-the Windows Store APIs (Lab 8-windows App Store APIs)

When you use this series of experiments, you will find the basic resources (primarily images and data) for creating the Contoso recipe in the assets folder.

Each numbered Lab folder contains two things:

· Lab.docx-micosoft the Word document format with an experimental description.

· Solution-A subfolder that contains the Contoso recipe source files after the experiment is completed. If you do not complete this experiment, you can use these files to continue with the next experiment.

Note that the experiment occasionally mentions finding content in the "Start material". This usually refers to a resource in a assets folder or a solution folder for a specific experiment.

Set up

To use these hands-on experiments, you need to run Windows 8 on your computer and use a version of Microsoft Visual Studio for Windows 8 (which can be Visual Studio Express 2012).

You can access the download links to the Windows Development Center for Windows application store applications to get the appropriate programming tools.

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Note This series of experiments works only with Windows 8 and visual Studio version 2012, which are currently available for download in Windows Development Center. They cannot work with earlier versions of Windows 8 (Developer preview, Consumer preview, or Release preview).

Important things to note about recipes

Note that recipes that provide data for the Contoso recipe sample are not real recipes. They are used only to demonstrate the processing and presentation of data in the Windows Application Store application. The ingredients, instructions, and other details are fictitious, so don't try to actually prepare any of the recipes described in the Contoso recipe.

You're on your way to fulfilling your dreams.

Let's start now! Enter Lab 1–creating a Windows Store app folder, open Lab.docx, and follow the instructions. After you finish experiment 1, complete the other experiments in sequence to complete the Contoso recipe exercise.

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