Windows 8 : Metro’s Grid Application

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submitted by jmix90(570) 8 months, 12 days ago

Windows 8 is here and Visual Studio 2011 comes with it hand in hand. As you may already have read/seen/watch, there is a new set of applications coming named as ‘metro’. Visual Studio 2011 then comes with templates for different types of applications: basic Application, Grid Application and Split Application. Each one helps you create application for windows 8 with the metro style. In this post we are going to explore in details a first type of application template: the Grid Application.

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posted by dpeterson(4397) 8 months, 11 days ago +1

Thanks for the introduction to those application styles. The more I see about Metro, the more I'm curious why Microsoft has relegated "standard" applications to the out-of-the-way desktop, when Metro style applications can't fulfill some of the most basic computing requirements (viewing one window while entering text in another).
It seems like they've gotten it backwards, like Metro should be the easy computing mode you can get to by clicking a desktop shortcut or changing a control panel setting.
Regardless, it's nice to see Microsoft imposing some standards for UI.

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