Windows 8 Store Application (#WinRT) Development Tutorial for #Win8Dev

Windows 8 introduced a new type of application set named “Windows 8 Store app” which has a new look & feel (earlier named as “Metro UI”). Developers can host & sell these WinRT apps from Windows Store, a new digital platform from Microsoft. Windows Store will allow both free and paid applications where the ranges may vary from $1.49 to $999.99 in case of paid version.

If you are a Visual C#, Visual Basic, Visual C++ and/or JavaScript application developer, you can build applications for Windows 8 Store using any one of those languages. I have started building a Tutorial series on WinRT (Windows 8 Store) application development using Visual C#, XAML templates.

Based on readers feedback, I built this page listing all the chapters of this tutorial series and will continue updating this page with the coming chapters of the tutorial. Start learning this new technology and build applications for Windows Store.

	Getting Started with WinRT app and Environment Setup This is the first chapter of the Tutorial series on Windows 8 Store application development. Here we will introduce with this technology and setup the developer environment with required tools and other stuffs. Read More

	Understand WinRT Project Templates and Structure This is the second chapter of the Tutorial series on Windows 8 Store application development. In this continued series, we will learn more about project templates in each category and the basic project structure of commonly used templates. Read More

	Begin with your First “Hello World” Windows Store app This is the third chapter of the Tutorial series on Windows 8 Store application development. In this chapter, we will learn how to develop our first WinRT application using the C#/XAML template. We will also learn how to build and run it inside a simulator that comes with the Visual Studio 2012 IDE. Read More

	Navigate between Pages in Windows Store apps This is the fourth chapter of the Tutorial series on Windows 8 Store application development. In this chapter we will learn how to navigate from one page to another page in WinRT applications using C# and XAML. Read More

	Know about LayoutAwarePage of Wndows Store app This is the fifth chapter of the Tutorial series on Windows 8 Store application development. In this chapter we will discuss more advanced page navigation using the LayoutAwarePage which comes with the Grid and Split application template by default. Read More

	Integrating Settings Panel in Windows 8 Charm Bar This is the sixth chapter of the Tutorial series on Windows 8 Store application development. In this post we will learn about Charm Bar and Settings Page from scratch. Also, we will learn how to invoke the charm bar to show the settings panel. Read More

	Integrating Application Bar in your Windows Store apps This is the seventh chapter of the Tutorial series on Windows 8 Store application development. In this chapter we will learn about Application Bar in WinRT applications along with integration and design guidelines. Read More

	Handling Files and Folders in your WinRT apps This is the eight chapter of the Tutorial series on Windows 8 Store application development. The WinRT SDK provides us Asynchronous APIs to query files and folders. Today we will learn how to handle files and folders in your Win8 metro applications. Read More

	Share Contract using DataTransferManager in WinRT apps This is the ninth chapter of the Tutorial series on Windows 8 Store application development. Windows 8 SDK provides APIs to implement sharing features from your WinRT applications. Here we will discuss how to integrate this. Read More

	Create Great Experience with LiveTile for your WinRT apps This is the tenth chapter of the Tutorial series on Windows 8 Store application development. A live tile is one of the best way to provide a good experience to your WinRT application. There are 46 different types of tile templates available which we are going to learn here. Read More

	Working with the Windows 8 Clipboard in WinRT applications This is the eleventh chapter of the Tutorial series on Windows 8 Store application development. The “Clipboard” is a user driven set of functions that enables an application to transfer data between applications or within an application. In this post we are going to learn about the SDK APIs. Read More

	Serializing Objects in your WinRT Applications This is the twelfth chapter of the Tutorial series on Windows 8 Store application development. Here you will learn about serializing objects in your WinRT applications using a 3rd party free library named TCD.Serialization via the NuGet package manager. Read More

	Working with Message Dialog in WinRT apps This is the thirteenth chapter of the Tutorial series on Windows 8 Store application development. Here you will learn about the MessageDialog and the command button implementation steps to show a message to the end user. Read More

Share your valuable feedback about these chapters and help me to provide you better tutorial series in future. Wish you all the best. Cheers everyone.

Published by Kunal Chowdhury on Saturday, April 20, 2013

Kunal Chowdhury is a Microsoft Windows Insider MVP, and Content Creator. He publishes latest tech news, articles, and reviews on kunal-chowdhury.com that has 2 million+ monthly views. DM him on webmaster@kunal-chowdhury.com if you want to discuss on any business collaboration opportunities.