Microsoft Visual Basic 2013 Step by Step

Chapter 3. Creating your first Windows Store application

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

• Designing the user interface

• Use XAML controls in the Toolbox.

• Work with random numbers, digital photos, and sound effects.

• Writing the code

• Creating a splash screen for your app

• Building an executable file

As you learned in Chapter 2, “The Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment,” the Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 IDE is ready to help you build your Visual Basic applications. In this chapter, you’ll dive right in and create a Visual Basic program for the Windows Store. As a complete walkthrough exercise, this chapter describes the essential steps that you will complete each time that you create a Visual Basic application in the Visual ...