Introduction to WinRT - Building Windows 8 Store Applications

The .NET Framework provides a subset of managed types that you can use to create Windows Store apps using C# or Visual Basic. This subset of managed types is called the .NET for Windows Store apps and enables .NET Framework developers to create Windows Store apps within a familiar programming framework. Any types that are not related to developing Windows Store apps are not included in the subset. You use these managed types with types from the Windows Runtime API to create Windows Store apps. In this session we'll take a close look at WinRT and some of the design goals behind it and then we'll build a simple Windows 8 Store App using our newfound knowledge.