<P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B> <I> <B>Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript </B> </I> </B>is the definitive guide for every experienced developer who wants to create, ship, and profit from Windows 8 apps built with HTML5 and JavaScript. Written by Chris Sells, former Visual Studio Principal Program Manager who led the team that built Microsoft’s official Windows 8 JavaScript app templates, and Brandon Satrom, expert web/mobile developer, this book covers every facet of development with Microsoft’s new JavaScript framework and WinRT.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">The authors guide you through building full-featured Windows Store apps that merge the best aspects of desktop, web, and mobile apps into a single user and developer experience. You’ll learn how to leverage the full power of the Windows 8 platform and integrate services ranging from client-side state to offline storage. Leveraging these techniques, you can deliver information to users faster, more clearly, and more concisely, on whatever devices they prefer.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Through complete example projects, <B> <I> <B>Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript </B> </I> </B>covers </P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Understanding powerful new improvements in Windows 8 developer experience</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Using Windows 8’s more flexible binding to update the UI as underlying data changes</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Creating layouts and typography that fit Windows 8 style and leverage its advantages</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Working with audio, video, captured media, animation, and HTML5 graphics</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Making your app “connectable” with PlayTo</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Integrating WinJS navigation services to improve UI control</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Maintaining app states built up over time, and sharing them across devices</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Writing highly responsive async apps</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Supporting true-touch metaphors and interactions, location data, and sensors</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Designing apps for the Windows 8 design language</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Extending JavaScript code to integrate existing C/C++ code or to access Windows capabilities that WinRT doesn’t expose</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Discovering best practices for monetizing Windows Store apps </DIV> </LI> </UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">All of the downloadable examples can be created and run with Microsoft’s free Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8, which includes all you need to build, package, and deploy your Windows Store apps.</P>