Lessons learned from my first Windows 8 Metro development project

Yesterday I talked at NNUG Oslo about my experiences and lessons learned developing my first Windows 8 application Ticki. Coming from a .NET WinForms world, the things that took the most time getting a grip on was the new pattern for asynchronous programming using async await and the Task Asynchronous Pattern. An other challenge for me was doing MVVM right. I knew the gist of the pattern, but applying it correctly in a Windows 8 context took some learning.

As promised, I leave you here with a link to the slides and also a summary of the resources I link to from that presentation:

On asynchronous programming

• Lucian Wishik's talk from NDC 2012: Part 1, Part 2
  
• Stephen Toubs Task Asynchronous Pattern (TAP) paper
  
• The Async Semaphore class by Stephen Toub. (Check out more of his posts, for instance his async-await FAQ, when you're there!)
  

On MVVM and Databinding

• The MVVM Pattern from Microsoft Patterns and Practices
  
• The MVVM Light Toolkit. Note: You can also install this via NuGet with "Install-Package MvvmLight"
  
• Achieving Databound Visual States in Windows 8 Metro apps.
  
• More on Attached Properties
  

Creating user controls and getting to know the UI framework

• Scott Guthrie on Control Templates
  
• The Visual Tree vs the Logical Tree from Josh Smith at Codeproject.com
  
• Creating Custom dependency properties (MSDN)
  

And finally, the slides:
Ticki-Erfaringer-NNUG-Frode-Nilsen.pptx