2011-1127

Metro Style App Development Useful Links

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Metro Style App Development Useful Links

Metro style apps are designed to leverage special hardware capabilities and context information to create an experience that is tailored for the user. For example, an app that uses sensors to determine your location, delivering content appropriate to that context, while also using an ambient light sensor to adjust the brightness level of the screen. Metro style apps are built using your existing skills and can reuse code assets you already have. If you know web development technologies, you can use HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Or, you can use more traditional programming techniques.

The following links are useful to learn the Metro Style programing model:

1-    Metro Style App Development Official Website

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/

2-    Tools for Metro style app development

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br211374%28v=VS.85%29.aspx

3-    Videos of How to Create Metro Style Apps

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/Build2011

4-    Samples of Metro Style Apps

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps

From C# Learners

5-    Metro Style Apps

https://csharplearners.com/category/metro-style-apps/

From MSDN

6-    Metro Style Apps – Walkthroughs

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh464943.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh440545%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

From Code Project

7-    Metro Style Apps

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WpfMetro.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/gadgets/MetroPuzzle.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WinRT/MetroStyleToggleW8DevPre.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WinRT/AddAppBarXAMLMetroApp.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/ThirdParty-Reviews/metroimageprocessing.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/269351/WinRT-Transitions-Creating-Fast-and-Fluid-Metro-UI.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/255730/TweetSearch-A-Cross-platform-Metro-UI-WinRT-and-Si.aspx

From C# Corners

8-    Major characteristics of UI of the Metro style apps

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Blogs/7148/what-makes-an-app-a-metro-style-app.aspx

From CodePlex

9-    Metro Applications

http://8metro.codeplex.com/

10-   MP2 Metro

http://mp2metro.codeplex.com/

11-   Metro Pandora

http://metropandora.codeplex.com/

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2011-1110

What are Metro style apps?

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Metro Style Apps
Metro style apps are full screen apps tailored to your users’ needs, tailored to the device they run on, tailored for touch interaction, and tailored to the Windows user interface. Windows helps you interact with your users, and your users interact with your app. R

Your choice of programming languages
You can create your app in the languages you’re most comfortable with: JavaScript with HTML5 and CSS3, or C++/C#/VB with XAML.

New deployment method
Your users can safely and simply install your apps. Removal is just as safe and simple, and won’t lead to degradation of system performance over time.
1- Metro style app packaging: You package your apps for deployment as Metro style app packages. With Metro style apps, all apps are installed per user; they install, update, and uninstall cleanly; and they don’t change the operating system in an irreversible way.
2- Windows Store (not yet released)

New UI and touch-centered input
You can create apps with controls that put your users’ goals first, that support direct manipulation of UI elements.

Localization
You can develop your app once and deploy in multiple locales and multiple languages. Not only that, Windows Developer Preview provides an API that ensures your app responds to users’ language and cultural preferences—like date, time, number, and currency formats—with little to no effort on your part. The end result is a great app with a coherent cultural experience tailored to each user and to all users everywhere. Learn more about Globalizing your app.

Developer tools
With free versions of Microsoft Expression Blend and Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview, you get a development environment and templates that help you design, develop, package, debug, and deploy your app.

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