Windows Store Apps Succinctly

Windows Store apps present a radical shift in Windows development. They place content and interaction above all else to provide users with immersive, intuitive application experiences. With Windows Store Apps Succinctly by John Garland, you'll be guided through obtaining a developer license, to managing your application's life cycle and storage, all the way to submitting your app to the Windows Store.
Windows Store apps are a new kind of application that run on Microsoft’s most recent generation of operating systems. Currently, this includes Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Server 2012. When installed, an app can have one or more tiles pinned in user-selected positions on the Windows Start screen. Users can launch the app by simply tapping or clicking one of its tiles. Additionally, some applications can be launched by Windows itself as a result of user interaction with common Windows interface elements, including the charms bar, which provides a focal point for accessing common functions such as in-app searching (Search charm), app-to-app data exchange (Share charm), hardware interaction (Device charm), and configuring settings and preferences (Settings charm). Apps can even be launched as a result of scenarios where they have elected to participate in Windows-brokered interactions that are actually initiated from within other applications.