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Download Windows 8 code samples and demo apps. New samples are added frequently in JavaScript, C++, C#, and Visual Basic.You can also download code samples for other products like Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Office, SharePoint, Silverlight, or explore the Official Visual Studio 2010 C#, VB.NET, and 101 LINQ samples.

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XAML essential controls 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 several common controls. It also shows you how to style a control, use a control to create a template, and create visual state behaviors. Technologies XAML, Windows Runtime	Featured C#, VB.NET
Windows 8 app samples - C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript 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 Metro style app code examples developed for Windows 8. The samples in this pack are available in in C#, C++, VB.NET, and JavaScript. The sample pack provides a convenient way to download all the samples at once. Technologies XAML, DirectX, Direct3D	(177) 9/14/2011 450,742 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	(24) 9/14/2011 68,139 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	(25) 9/14/2011 48,580 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	(8) 2/29/2012 17,212 Downloads C#, VB.NET, C++, 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	(16) 2/29/2012 19,255 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	(13) 2/16/2012 13,398 Downloads C#
Getting started with C# and Visual Basic: Hello World and Blog reader 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 includes the companion code for the Microsoft Visual Basic and C# tutorials in the Getting started node of the Windows Dev Center. Technologies XAML, Windows Runtime	(1) 8/15/2012 3,380 Downloads C#, VB.NET
Application data 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 you how to store and retrieve data that is specific to each user and Windows Store app using the Windows Runtime application data APIs. Application data includes session state, user preferences, and other settings. It is created, r... Technologies Windows Runtime	(8) 9/14/2011 15,157 Downloads C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript
MY EVENTS Sample Modern App with Visual Studio 2012 cesardl [MSFT] The main goal of this sample modern application is to provide a sample app where you can see most of the new technologies related to Visual Studio 2012, in a practical way. Technologies WPF, XAML, HTML5	(6) 9/12/2012 878 Downloads 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	(12) 9/14/2011 20,047 Downloads C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript
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