What’s changed for app developers since //build/ (part 1)

The Consumer Preview is now available and hopefully, you’ve had a chance to see what we’ve been up to. Our engineering team has been working hard since //build/. We’ve been listening to your feedback and using it to improve our development platform. At the same time, we’ve been putting the finishing touches on lots of platform features that you haven’t seen before.


Along with the work we did directly on Windows, we’ve also improved our Visual Studio tools substantially since //build/. There have been improvements for Metro style app development and for other scenarios as well. I’ll talk about Metro style development here, but if you’re interested in other VS features, Jason Zander’s blog is a great place to start.

We know that you’ve been busy too. You started over 5,000 different threads on the MSDN Developer Preview forums and posted close to 30,000 messages. Our telemetry also tells us that you’ve been using