What is Windows Metro style app

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user1025901 picture user1025901 · Jan 16, 2012 · Viewed 16k times · Source

Could anybody in simple term explain what is Windows Metro style app? What is the purpose and what kind of application we can make using this?

Any link for beginners will be of great use..

Thanks

Answer

Tiago Andrade e Silva picture Tiago Andrade e Silva · Jan 16, 2012

"Metro style apps are full screen apps tailored to your users' needs, tailored to the device they run on, tailored for touch interaction, and tailored to the Windows user interface. Windows helps you interact with your users, and your users interact with your app." from MSDN.

All about developing for Windows 8: http://www.buildwindows.com/

When developing Metro apps you can chose from a variety of languages and technologies:

  • HTML + JS + CSS
  • XAML + (C# or VB)
  • XAML + (C++ or C)

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