Tools You Can Use for Windows 8 Store App Development

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Tools You Can Use for Windows 8 Store App Development If you’re one of the many stcking with Windows 8.x for the foreseeable future, you should take a look at the following free-for-personal-use (and cheap-for-corporateuse) tool applicaton. They may even be enough to tide you over untl Microsoft pries Windows 7 from your cold, dead keyboard.

Tools The following are a few Windows Application development tools or related products that you can use to develop Windows 8.x Store applicaton or improve upon your already existng Windows 8.x applicatons.


1. Visual Studio 2012 / 2013 Microsof Visual Studio is probably the best development tool to use to develop applications for Windows 8.x. With Visual Studio you can develop Windows 8.x application with VB.NET, C#, or even JavaScript. It provides a lot of templates for the programming languages. It allows you to design your applicaton Interface easily, and it provides the XAML code for all the controls you have placed on your page. You can design, write, and test all your applicaton in one place.

2. MonoGame MonoGame is the Open Source equivalent to Microsof's XNA Framework found on CodePlex. CodePlex has to be the best place to find any Open Source code. With MonoGame however, XNA development is not limited to only Microsoft; it can be ported to iOS, Android, Mac OS X, Linux and Windows 8. It is 100% free and you can start creating your game now. There are a lot of examples and documentaton available on the MonoGame site

3. SharpDX SharpDX is an open-source project encompassing DirectX and the .NET Platform. This enables you to create high performance 2D and 3D graphics for all Windows Platforms. All you have to do is to download the code and start building your applications using high-performance graphics. There is a ton of documentaton available

4. Ignite UI Ignite UI, formerly known as NetAdvantage, allows developers to create mobile and desktop experiences that are touch-enabled and browser based. Ignite UI is a set of jQuery Core, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile JavaScript libraries which can be used with HTML 5 (client-side) or ASP.NET MVC (server-side) applications. Some of its controls Data Chart • include: Geospatal Mapping • Data Grid • Hierarchical Data • Grid • OLAP / Multi-Dimensional Pivot • Grid Date Picker • Editors


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