I'm looking to develop a game for Windows 8 using C# and XAML, simply because I have a small amount of experience with C# and XNA 4.0 (Am I right in thinking I need to move on from XNA for win8?).
With it being such a fresh topic, a quick search on Amazon for a book to learn to create such apps only yielded a very small number of results... most of which have no reviews yet. I was just wondering if anyone can recommend a book for a (sort of) newbie, probably based on the quality of previous titles by the author?
Alternatively, any good web resources? (I'm a student so don't have much money after all!)
Apologies for asking such an open-ended question... I'm just struggling to find where to begin.
Once after creating a shortcut of an app or program or folder on the desktop, you just have to right click on it and select Pin to Start. this will create a shortcut on the Modern UI screen. Once you right click an app from Modern UI screen and click Pin to taskbar will create a shortcut on the taskbar.
Metro apps are touch-screen-friendly apps written especially for Microsoft's WinRT programming interfaces. ARM-based Windows RT devices, such as the Surface tablet, will require Metro apps. Devices running Windows 8 are expected to be able to run both Metro apps and Win32 apps.
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Charles Petzold has written a new version of Programming Windows, which in previous versions was (and still is!) the reference for coding against Win32.
The 6th edition:
[focuses] on writing Metro style applications for Windows 8
It's available from O'Reilly at a discounted price of $20 at the moment and seems pretty good from what I've read of it so far! It'll go up in price progressively (as detailed on the O'Reilly website) between now and November to $50, so worth grabbing now if you can - particularly as you mention you're a student and thus lacking funds =)
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