Windows 8 Development Tutorial – Part 1 – First Steps

Now that both Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta have been released, it’s a fantastic time posting about Windows 8 programming, especially about the new Metro style based applications.

For the sake of rapid-start, I’ll save the writing about what Metro Style application is, but I’ll give you a link in case that you’ve missed that:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh464920.aspx

Installing Windows 8 Customer Preview

Before we begin, I highly recommend you to install Windows 8 and learn about the new Metro UI language, since it’s totally different than what we are used to in current versions of windows.

Lets create a clean install of the Windows 8 Consumer on our Tablet, Laptop or Desktop PC, then we will install Visual Studio 11 Beta.

If you already have Windows 8 installed, skip this section.

There are several ways installing Windows 8 on our machine, and I think that the easiest and fastest is using a USB stick.

1. First go and download the full Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO file from Microsoft.

2. Get a USB stick big enough to contain the 3.3GB (x64) or 2.5GB (x86) ISO file and use the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool to make your USB stick bootable with Windows 8 installation.

3. Create a bootable USB device using the tool and the Windows 8 ISO file.

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