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August 2, 2013
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Idea books for commercial and enterprise app design—with sample code!



You can create great Windows Store apps that provide elegant, engaging, consistent and compelling user experiences in Windows. Idea books are a great starting point to inspire you when designing your Windows Store app. Idea books target different app categories and show what’s possible as well as how to create best-in-class experiences in your app.

Idea books wth accompanying code samples

Figure 1: Idea books with accompanying code samples.

While many of the idea books examine app scenarios and show great design patterns, a common question is, “Can you show me the code that you used to create that?” So, by popular demand, we’ve published several idea books with sample code so you can see the exact code used to create the sample app highlighted in the idea book. Here’s the current list of idea books that have an accompanying code example.

We hope that you find these idea books and code examples to be a great tool to jumpstart your own app design. We’d love to hear from you on how this content enhanced your developer experience, so please provide feedback to help us improve and expand the content that is meaningful to you.

–Doug Rothaus, Senior Content Developer, Windows Developer Content