Developers View from 30,000 Feetĭuring the opening keynote at the Microsoft BUILD conference, Steven Sinofsky, President of the Microsoft Windows and Windows Live Divisions, introduced the world to the new paradigm for Windows 8 applications ( Figure 2). Figure 1: The new Metro user interface is touch friendly and easy to navigate. Figure 1 provides you with the opening start screen for the Windows Developer Preview. While Microsoft claims the Metro style UI is equally at home with a mouse and keyboard, clearly you achieve the optimal user experience using touch-enabled devices. You are already familiar with the UI style if you have seen or used a Windows Phone 7. Metro is Microsoft’s newest client-side user interface paradigm targeting touch-enabled devices.

Lastly, I will demonstrate building a Metro app using HTML and JavaScript to jumpstart your journey into building Metro apps. Hopefully I can clear up some misconceptions about Metro apps and explain how this new UI paradigm relates to you and your existing skillset as a. In this article I will introduce you to Metro apps. The most compelling new feature for developers and users alike is the new Metro style user interface. Microsoft unveiled the Windows Developer Preview, a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers, at the Microsoft BUILD conference in September 2011.

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