Presentation for Windows 8 app development startup workshop at AIMT.

1. A software
A software(According to Wikipedia) is basically a computer program which is
any set of machine-readable instructions that directs a computer’s processor
to perform specific operations.

2. Difference between an App
and a software
 Self contained piece of software.
 Subset of software (Basically it’s application software).
 Always full size.
 No inbuilt exit button.
 Does same working as of software.
 Doesn’t leave traces into the system.

3. What is a windows 8 app is ?
The app which is developed to be used in windows 8 is a windows 8 app.
In other words which is developed to be used with Windows RT API.

4. Why to develop for windows?
 More than 200 million people are using windows 8.
 Easy to develop apps.(Not much need of designer)
 Good solution for making money.
 Have a great market in future.

5. What is .NET ?
.NET is a platform introduced by Microsoft Corp. which let’s you to
develop, deploy, host, maintain and execute your application.

6. Features of .NET
 It’s basically a software component(often called as a platform) that runs
on windows operating system.
 It provides tools and libraries to create windows software much faster and
easier.
 It provides end-users by providing applications of higher capability, quality
and security.
 It currently supports 59 languages.

7. Architecture of .NET framework
 .NET compliant languages.
 Common Language Specification(CLS)
 Framework Class Library(FCL)
 Common Language Runtime(CLR)
 Visual Studio IDE

8. How .NET framework works

9. The most common ways to
develop for windows 8
1) Using Visual C# with XAML.
2) HTML5, CSS3 with JS.

10. What is XAML?
XAML stands for eXtensible Application Markup Language. It’s basically a
markup language which is used to design apps for windows. It makes you
design and integrate data with formatting. It was developed by Microsoft for
the same reason.

11. What is Visual Studio?
Visual Studio is a complete set of development tools for building ASP.NET Web
applications, XML Web Services, desktop applications, mobile applications
and a lot more…

12. Let’s get started…

13. Say “Hello World” in Visual
Studio way…

14. Let’s hide some text…

15. What about a landing to a
different page….

16. Let’s add some music to the
Code….

17. What about a video..??
How about adding some controls to it…??

18. How to turn your app into a
mini web browser..??

19. Any Queries…??

20. Thanks for co-operation.
For further queries :-
Aishwarya Pradhan
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