A Tour Through the Windows 8 Documentation
Last night I did a presentation at a very active and exciting Seattle user group called vNext. The topic, of course, was Windows 8. If you read my blog, you know that that’s most of what I’m talking about these days. Instead of creating tangential content, I relied on the excellent documentation that you can browse any time in the Windows Dev Center at dev.windows.com.
The Dev Center is an enormous place, but it’s well organized and I think you’ll find it’s not too difficult to find what you’re looking for. Still, I’m including my compiled outline below in case it helps you navigate the sea of information.
The hierarchy of this outline exactly reflects that of the Dev Center, so hopefully mapping the sections will be easy and intuitive.
Getting started
Making great apps
Visual Studio 11 Beta
Blend for Visual Studio 11 Beta
Download samples
JavaScript tutorial
JavaScript doc roadmap
Visual Studio templates
Designing UX for apps
Design Principles
UX Patterns
Navigation design
Commanding design
Touch interaction design
Downloading design assets
Case studies
Website to Metro style app
Developing apps
Writing code for Metro style apps (JavaScript)
Coding basic apps
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features and differences
HTML and DOM API changes list
Features and restrictions by context
Asynchronous programming
Asynchronous programming in JavaScript
Chaining promises in JavaScript
Creating a UI
Defining layout, navigation, and commands
Supporting navigation
Quickstart: Using single-page navigation
How to reference content
How to link to external web pages
How to create a mashup
Adding controls and content
Controls list
Animating your UI
Responding to user interaction
Gestures, manipulations, and interactions
Working with data and files
Data binding
Quickstart: Binding data and styles to HTML elements
How to bind to a complex object
Managing app data
Accessing data and files
Transferring a file from a network resource
Sharing and exchanging data
