Windows 8 Metro Apps are designed to optimize battery life, which in turn requires developers to build their applications based on a new execution lifecycle.  In this video excerpt from Ian Griffiths course Building Windows 8 Metro Apps with C# and XAML you’ll see the new events that you can use to adapt your application to that new lifecycle as well as how to debug your application during new events such as Suspension and restarting after termination.  In the full course Ian covers other important topics for Windows 8 Metro development including the new Metro layouts, how to use controls, and databinding.

Ian is an independent consultant, developer, speaker, and author. He has written books on Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms, and Visual Studio. He lives in London but can often be found on various developer mailing lists and newsgroups, where a popular sport is to see who can get him to write the longest email in reply to the shortest possible question.

If you’d like to learn how to build Metro Apps in Windows 8 using C# and XAML, this is a great course to get you started.

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