Just wanted to add a shoutout to WinJS for posterity, with which I built a Windows 8 app that I had published to the Windows Store for a brief period of time. Then they open-sourced the UI part of WinJS and decided it was just a web framework instead of an officially supported method for building Windows apps iirc, which was the end of my foray into the Windows store.

https://github.com/winjs/winjs

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jerhewet 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> for posterity

Anyone remember this one?

Microsoft Press: Learn Java Now (complete with J++ installation CD). https://www.amazon.com/dp/1572314281

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pjmlp 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have a WinJS book somewhere, from Microsoft Press.

When it was announced at PDC, they only talked about WinJS and nothing else, the folks of .NET Rocks have a few shows where they mention they thought .NET was done, and they needed to refocus into something else.

The show where they interview Miguel de Icaza they go into this.

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Klonoar 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you want JS, isn’t react-native-windows an option?

	▲	nozzlegear 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It probably is now, but I don't think it was at the time. This was back in the early Windows 8 era, when apps were called "Metro" – 2012 to 2015 I think? I'm primarily a .NET dev by trade, but I wanted to try something different with WinJS so invested time in learning that.