Learn to build Metro style 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. Test and debug APIs and languages Find the APIs you need in whatever programming language you prefer. Windows 8.1
Windows 8 Consumer Preview Product Guide for Developers Download the full Windows 8 Product Guide (English) (973 KB, PDF) German (2.07 MB) Spanish (1.67 MB) French (1.69 MB) Japanese (2.27 MB) Korean (3.02 MB) Portuguese (Brazil) (1.69 MB) Russian (1.68 MB) Chinese (Simplified) (2.40 MB) Chinese (Traditional) (2.43 MB) On this page Introduction Apps take center stage Build apps using what you know Powerful tools and all the resources you need Broad reach, flexibility, and transparency of the Windows Store Introduction If you’re a developer, Windows 8 gives you an amazing platform to reach the millions of people around the world who use Windows every day to be more productive, creative, and to have fun. Apps are at the center of the Windows 8 experience. Developers can take advantage of the services Microsoft provides so their apps will light up when they’re connected to the cloud. Signing up to sell your app in the Windows Store means you can tap into the worldwide user base of Windows. Apps take center stage Microsoft design principles App contracts Search.
Windows Internet Explorer 10 Consumer Preview Guide for Developers (Preliminary) Purpose The Internet Explorer 10 Guide for Developers provides a look at the developer features included in Internet Explorer 10, as well as the latest HTML5, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3) features available to developers of Windows Store apps using JavaScript for Windows 8. By using the documentation and samples in this guide, developers and designers can take full advantage of these new features. Important The contents of this guide apply to both Internet Explorer 10 and Windows Store apps using JavaScript for Windows 8, except where noted. Listed here are new developer features for Internet Explorer 10. Internet Explorer 10—as well as Windows Store apps using JavaScript—contains support for the following developer features. Developer audience