I build .NET apps
The power of a vast network—working for you
- The Windows Store is a worldwide network designed to do one thing: get your app in people’s hands.
- First things first: you keep 80% of revenue for sales of $25,000 USD in the Windows Store—more than any other platform.
- The Windows Store puts your app in 200 markets worldwide, on the 100 million machines with Windows 8 licenses.
- Every app can ship with a free trial option—a proven way to increase sales.
- Further monetize your app with ad support, in-app purchases, and more.
- Utilize Windows Azure’s infrastructure and let us take care of the backend. That way, you can focus on what you do best—bringing your vision to life.
Prepare to do something amazing
- Tap into the underlying performance benefits of Windows 8—from stability and hardware power to the Chakra JavaScript engine and next-generation user interfaces.
- Define the future of how people will interact with technology with advanced user inputs like motion through the Kinect sensor, the Xbox 360 controller, voice, gyroscope, and GPS.
- Your app scales automatically across devices, so what users will get is your vision—not some hardware manufacturer’s interpretation of it.
Use your existing skills to build something new
- Embrace the app generation: bring your next great idea to life as a Windows 8 app and see how easy it can be. Grab the SDK and get started.
- The developer tools you already know are the cornerstone of app development on Windows 8. Use your C#, VB, and C++ with XAML or DirectX 11.1 skills on a whole new canvas.
- Have experience with Windows Presentation Foundation or Microsoft Silverlight? Or even web languages like JavaScript with HTML/CSS? Great news: you can build Windows 8 apps in all of them.
- You’ll love what you can do with Windows 8’s stability and support for next-generation hardware and user interfaces. The sky is the limit. Or is it? First app on the next Mars rover? Do it!
Success stories
In this video about Fling Theory from CodingJar, learn how players solve puzzles by manipulating physics and destroying obstacles, using electrons to charge atoms.
See and hear how Trend Hunter magazine designed and developed the Trend Hunter app in the Windows Store. Watch the video to learn more.
Editor’s picks
Learn how to use .NET to build applications that run on multiple devices. An end to end .NET sample will illustrates the various .NET features for building a connected application.
Async support available with .NET and Visual Studio makes it easier to compose the asynchrony in your apps. We’ll examine new support available to help you debug your async code.
Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 share code. Your apps can too. This course helps you maximize code sharing between platforms.
Perspectives
Read about the creation of Centwise: a Windows Phone app client for a service, Splitwise.
This blog focuses on the publishing to Azure features.
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