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Accelerometer sensor sample This sample was verified and tested by Windows SDK team. Official Windows SDK Sample Official Windows SDK Sample MSFT Windows SDK samples are developed and tested by the Windows team to ensure that you have a great experience. View Samples - Microsoft This sample shows how to use the Windows.Devices.Sensors.Accelerometer API. Technologies Windows Runtime	Featured C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript
Windows 8 app samples This sample was verified and tested by Windows SDK team. Official Windows SDK Sample Official Windows SDK Sample MSFT Windows SDK samples are developed and tested by the Windows team to ensure that you have a great experience. View Samples - Microsoft This sample pack includes all the app code examples developed for Windows 8. The sample pack provides a convenient way to download all the samples at once. The samples in this sample pack are available in C#, C++, VB.NET, and JavaScript. Technologies XAML, DirectX, Direct3D	(234) 9/14/2011 751,156 Downloads C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript
File access sample This sample was verified and tested by Windows SDK team. Official Windows SDK Sample Official Windows SDK Sample MSFT Windows SDK samples are developed and tested by the Windows team to ensure that you have a great experience. View Samples - Microsoft This sample shows how to create, read, write, copy and delete a file, how to retrieve file properties, and how to track a file or folder so that your app can access it again. This sample uses Windows.Storage and Windows.Storage.AccessCache API. Technologies Windows Runtime	(33) 9/14/2011 101,191 Downloads C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript
Splash screen sample This sample was verified and tested by Windows SDK team. Official Windows SDK Sample Official Windows SDK Sample MSFT Windows SDK samples are developed and tested by the Windows team to ensure that you have a great experience. View Samples - Microsoft This sample shows how to imitate the splash screen that Windows displays for your app by positioning a similar image correctly when Windows dismisses the splash screen that it displays. This sample uses the SplashScreen class in the Windows.Applicati... Technologies Windows Runtime	(44) 9/14/2011 134,864 Downloads C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript
App settings sample This sample was verified and tested by Windows SDK team. Official Windows SDK Sample Official Windows SDK Sample MSFT Windows SDK samples are developed and tested by the Windows team to ensure that you have a great experience. View Samples - Microsoft This sample demonstrates how to use the ApplicationSettings API and settings flyouts to integrate an app's settings UI with the Settings charm. Technologies HTML5, Windows Runtime	(31) 2/29/2012 51,303 Downloads C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript
Getting started with JavaScript: Complete code for the tutorial series This sample was verified and tested by Windows SDK team. Official Windows SDK Sample Official Windows SDK Sample MSFT Windows SDK samples are developed and tested by the Windows team to ensure that you have a great experience. View Samples - Microsoft This sample provides completed versions of the apps you create by following the Create your first Windows Store app using JavaScript tutorial series. Technologies HTML5, Windows Runtime	(10) 8/15/2012 12,898 Downloads JavaScript
App tiles and badges sample This sample was verified and tested by Windows SDK team. Official Windows SDK Sample Official Windows SDK Sample MSFT Windows SDK samples are developed and tested by the Windows team to ensure that you have a great experience. View Samples - Microsoft This sample shows how to use an app tile, which is the representation and launch point for your app in the Start screen, and a badge on that tile, which is a method for the app to relay status information to the user when the app is not running. Technologies Windows Runtime	(31) 2/29/2012 52,818 Downloads C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript
Geolocation sample This sample was verified and tested by Windows SDK team. Official Windows SDK Sample Official Windows SDK Sample MSFT Windows SDK samples are developed and tested by the Windows team to ensure that you have a great experience. View Samples - Microsoft The Geolocation sample demonstrates how to use the Geolocation API to get the geographic location of the user's PC. Technologies Windows Runtime	(20) 9/14/2011 44,498 Downloads C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript
Contact Manager Web API Daniel Roth - Microsoft This sample uses ASP.NET Web API to build a simple contact manager application. The application consists of a contact manager web API that is used by an ASP.NET MVC application, a Windows Phone application, and a Windows 8 app to display and manage a list of contacts. Technologies ASP.NET, Windows Phone, Windows 8	(23) 2/16/2012 36,256 Downloads C#
Message dialog sample This sample was verified and tested by Windows SDK team. Official Windows SDK Sample Official Windows SDK Sample MSFT Windows SDK samples are developed and tested by the Windows team to ensure that you have a great experience. View Samples - Microsoft This sample demonstrates how to use a MessageDialog for displaying dialogs, setting commands and the actions they will perform, and changing the default button. Technologies Windows Runtime	(5) 2/29/2012 26,486 Downloads C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript
XAML DirectX 3D shooting game sample This sample was verified and tested by Windows SDK team. Official Windows SDK Sample Official Windows SDK Sample MSFT Windows SDK samples are developed and tested by the Windows team to ensure that you have a great experience. View Samples - Microsoft This sample demonstrates the basic end-to-end implementation of a simple first person 3-D game using DirectX (Direct3D 11.1, Direct2D, XInput, and XAudio2) and XAML in a C++ app. XAML is used for the heads-up display and game state messages. Technologies DirectX	(11) 2/29/2012 19,839 Downloads C++
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