One of my preferred ways to learn new things is to read source code written by other people. Specifically on Windows 8 Windows Store apps, I like to understand how some apps were developed, which APIs or libraries were used, and even how some page layouts were designed.

Here is a very good compilation of links that Tiago Andrade e Silva shared with me today, which developers creating Windows Store apps for Windows 8 will find very useful.

In Windows 8 we have two versions of the Internet Explorer, the well-known “Desktop” version, and the new “Windows Store” version, which can render everything that the “Desktop” version can, but does not support any kind of plugins like Flash, Silverlight, or Java Applets for example.

An article discussing Microsoft's strategies to gain developer interests in Windows 8 App Store Development.

This is an introductory post that is meant to investigate basic functionality provided in Bing Maps components for C#/XAML Windows Store apps. Topics covered include: using Bing Maps SDK for Windows Store apps in Visual Studio 2012 projects, zooming and centering map on user’s current location usi...

In this blog post I am going to show how to use Background Transfer feature to download files over HTTP in a Windows Store C#/XAML app. Background Transfer has several advantages over using HttpClient and is much better for long running transfers. I am going to create a simple app, that initiates do...

WinRT has a built-in authentication client that can be used to authenticate users through Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Google, etc. This post covers the process of authenticating users with Google.

create an asynchronous javascript function in WinRT javascript

findControlAsync in WinRT javascript

findControl winRT using static helper

How to use C# and to create power short cuts in windows 8

From the developer point of view animations are usually something of hard, just because they bring almost an additional “dimension” to the screens that is the time. Dealing with animations in a classic desktop application is almost impossible but also in a WPF or Silverlight application it may be ca...

In this blog post I show how to set up a basic CRUD ASP.NET Web API REST like service and how to consume that service from a C# Windows XAML 8 app (‘modern style’ that is). I lso show how to build a simple user interface in XAML powered by data retrieved from our service and how to leverage MVVM pat...

This post uses the Visual Studio debugger to demonstrate that learning proper asynchronous programming is no longer an option. In Windows 8, your main thread is not always your UI thread as it is in Windows Forms and WPF.