Getting started with Windows Store apps. Download the tools It’s easier than you think to create a Windows Store app.
Follow this guide to get the tools you need, create your own apps, and publish them in the Windows Store. Read more Explore You don’t need to learn a new language to start building a Windows Store app—you can create a Windows Store app with what you already know! Read more Plan and design By taking advantage of user experience guidelines and design patterns, you can design an app that’s attractive and easy to use. Read more Develop When you create a Windows Store app, you have access to easy-to-use APIs that simplify layout and presentation, and let you search and share with other apps.
Read more Sell your app Windows 8 offers the single largest potential market for your apps. Read more Get Visual Studio Express 2013 Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows is your tool to build, test, and deploy Windows Store apps. Develop universal Windows apps that run on all Windows devices Introducing Windows Phone 8.1. Learn to build Windows Store apps. Universal app samples Samples for building an app that you can submit to both the Windows Store and the Windows Phone Store.
Sample app pack Hundreds of samples from Microsoft to help jumpstart your project quickly. Multiple views Create and show multiple views of the app, specify which view to show when the app is activated (using ApplicationViewSwitcher), and create custom animations for switching between views. Port from OpenGL ES 2.0 Walk through the process of porting an OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics pipeline, and look up API mapping to Direct3D 11.1. Port from Direct3D 9 Get articles, overviews, and walkthroughs for porting DirectX 9 games to DirectX 11.1 and the Windows Store. App architecture Learn about our new app models and the programming languages available to you.
App features, start-to-finish Add commonly used features, like file handling or multimedia playback to your app. Developing Windows Store apps. The topic you requested is included in another documentation set.
For convenience, it's displayed below. Choose Switch to see the topic in its original location. Learn how to create Windows Store apps using C#, C++, or Visual Basic. From the new Start screen to new UI layout and controls, the presentation of your app is about showing off what it's great at. Before you begin Be sure you've read: App features, start to finish Our new start-to-finish series helps you add features to your app to engage your customers and to create the kind of experiences that draws people in and delight them. Steps to developing Windows Store apps Create a UILearn how to create a user interface for your app.Define app resourcesLearn how to define your app's resources to improve maintainability and localization.
Related topics Detailed UX guidelines for Windows Store apps: Learn how to develop your apps so that if follows best practices for a great user experience. Surface with Windows RT.