Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps by Ben Dewey Book review

Posted Date: 17-Aug-2012	Category: Windows 8 Books
Author: Ravneet Singh	Member Level: Gold	Points: 50

Are you looking to learn building applications for Windows 8? This is the best book for you- Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps- A Guide to the Windows Runtime by Ben Dewey. Get more details about “Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps” in this article.

"Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps" Book

Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps is a quick start guide to learn how to build all the touch enabled applications for Windows 8. This book helps in learning how to work with the Windows Runtime. Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps book contains lot of C# code examples for the better understanding of the reader. This book also contains how to build Bing Image Search App.

The publisher of Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps by Ben Dewey is O'Reilly Media. O'Reilly Media is a well known publisher for their best sellers- Head First Books. Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps book consists of 108 pages. The Ebook edition of Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps book was released in July, 2012 and the Print Edition is released in August, 2012.

Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps Book Details

Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps book consists of 5 chapters. All the details of the chapters are given below-

Windows 8- This chapter will tell you about the Start screen and Start Bar. This chapter will also tell you about what is inside and outside of the Windows 8 Apps.

Making Bing Search App- This chapter consists of making a Bing Search Application. It also contains how to unlock WinRT.

Architecture of the Application- This chapter is all about the Architecture of the Windows 8 application. It contains topic like Navigation, Model-View-View Model(MVVM) and many other related topics.

How to interact with the Operating system- In this chapter, Tiles, Pickers, Sharing and LockScreen topics are discussed in brief.

Windows Store- This chapter tells you how to do distribution of your Windows 8 App. It also includes how to do the marketing of your Windows 8 App.

Price of Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps Book

You can buy Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps book from Oreilly.com on the following prices-
Buy Ebook of Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps in 9.99$ only.
Buy Print Book of Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps in 14.99$ only.
Buy Ebook and Print Book of Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps in 16.49$ only.

I would recommend everyone to buy Ebook instead of Print Book because it will help us in saving both money and trees.

About the Author

Ben Dewey is working as Senior Software Developer in Tallan. He believes in developing Strong applications with the best user experience. You can follow him at twitter- http://twitter.com/bendewey

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