Windows 8 Apps Revealed: Using HTML5 and JavaScript

✍ Scribed by Adam Freeman (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 139
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This 88-page primer unveils the key features of Microsoft's eagerly anticipated Windows 8 operating system. Windows 8 contains Microsoft's revolutionary new application framework for building dynamic and responsive touch-enabled applications that target both desktops and mobile devices.

Experienced author Adam Freeman invites you to take a crash course in Windows 8 development. Using the open standards of HTML5 and JavaScript, he ensures you understand the changes that are being made to Windows development practices and puts you on the right course to creating innovative and elegant applications for this latest evolution of the world's most successful operating system.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Getting Started....Pages 1-20
Data and Bindings....Pages 21-45
Application Controls....Pages 47-71
Layouts and Tiles....Pages 73-101
Life-Cycle Events....Pages 103-123
Back Matter....Pages 125-128

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general