Wow what a surprise in those training sessions.

Robert Green was presenting. Very nice guy. I read ealier that he retired from MS so I thought that it sounded weird that one Robert Green left MS and then another one joined them. So I learned there that Robert Green returned to MS. Interesting information, Robert Green studied to Concordia university some years ago.

All in all very interesting introduction to windows 8 metro development.

>>I just got back tonight from day 1 of 2 on how to develop applications for W8.
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>>Conclusion tomorrow.
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>>Windows 8 lets you have it both ways. The new metro interface. This one should be for Tablets and Windows phone. I don't see this becoming very popular on desktops.
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>>And the interface we are used to. I changed my mind ;-) I will install it on a virtual machine. I just want to see if there's really something worth mentioning with the ancient approach.
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>>I've been resisting .net all those years and there's something very interesting for me in developing apps for the Metro interface. I like it that JavaScript and Html5 can be used to build Metro apps.
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>>Perhaps I'll never have to learn .net
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>>I think that it would be a wise decision to not learn a development environment that is proprietary to a company. Html5 and JavaScript are perfect here.
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>>But it's too soon yet. So in the meantime I'll continue my VFP development and I'll be following with interest the evolution within MS.
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>Thanks
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>There is a thread #1540749 and especially message #1540753 which mentions the limitation of .NET for developing smartphone apps.